Sunday, January 07, 2007

Bush's 'surge' will backfire

Retired General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO, is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations wrote in the British publication The Independent...

The odds are that President George Bush will announce a "surge" of up to 20,000 additional US troops in Iraq. But why? Will this deliver a "win"? The answers: a combination of misunderstanding and desperation; and, probably not.

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