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I`m enjoying Hugh more each time I hear him.
Hugh talking to a guy from the Weekly Standard will sound to the Democrats like one conservative talking to another. They will dismiss everything if the reporting doesn’t come from MSM, NYT, etc. Very unfortunate. Reid doesn’t believe General Patreus — and has said it — anymore than he believes Bush or any intelligence reports. Maybe in 5 years they will clue in when their passports expire and they have to return home from the state of denial... but maybe not.
Fred Kagen gave a lecture at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday, called:
Sustaining the Surge; Phase II of “Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq”
Here’s the link: http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1501,filter.all/event_detail.asp
No audio or video of the lecture yet, but from my experience it should be up sometime today or tomorrow.
Kagan and Boot are good. I disagree with Boot, whom I’ve corresponded with, that enemy casualties are “irrelevant.” I think ONE of the reasons the surge is working so well is precisely because in the last three years we’ve annihilated AQ and the so-called “insurgents,” killing 40,000 of them and capturing/wounding another 200,000. Funny thing about military operations: when you reinforce pressure against an enemy that is weakened, he tends to break even faster.