Editor’s Note: It is an overpowering consensus in Washington that the relative decline in Iraqi violence must be attributed to President George W. Bush’s “courageous” decision in 2007 to “surge” U.S. troop levels, a lesson that now must be repeated in Afghanistan.
This conventional wisdom has been pushed especially hard by the influential neoconservatives and the Republicans, but also has been accepted by many liberals and Democrats fearful of being viewed as out of step or not fully behind “the troops.”
However, as author William Blum at killinghope.org notes in this guest essay, there is another side to the story:
They don’t always use the word “surge,” but that’s what they mean.
Our admirable leaders and our mainstream media that love to interview them would like us to believe that escalation of the war in Afghanistan is in effect a “surge,” like the one in Iraq which, they believe, has proven so successful.
But the reality of the surge in Iraq was nothing like its promotional campaign.
Tags: Afghanistan, ethnic cleansing in Iraq, surge, war, war in Iraq, William Blum
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