There has been a lot of talk recently about the success of Bush's "Surge" in Iraq. The extra troops are responsible for a small part of the reduction in violence and its not hard to understand why.
If you post cops on every street corner of any high crime area, of course there is going to be a reduction in crime... until they leave. The biggest reason for the calmer atmosphere is that we are literally buying cooperation on a person by person basis. We are handing out millions of dollars in cash to individual Iraqi's and asking them to be nice to us. Just like having a cop on every corner, that will work until you can't do it any more and that time is coming soon.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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