The Surge

Fred Barnes wrote a very interesting article on how the President came to the decision to implement the Surge in Iraq:

In Washington, the president got little satisfaction from the interagency review of Iraq policy. Instead of a surge, the State Department favored a strategy of pulling troops out of Baghdad and allowing the Sunnis and Shia to finish their bloody struggle. When Bush heard about this idea, he rejected it out of hand. “I don’t believe you can have political reconciliation if your capital city is burning,” he said.

One day, when I'm president, I'm going to require posters in every office and hallway of the State Department reminding them which country they work for.

via Flopping Aces