So Bush's Iraq Surge and Obama's Afghanistan Surge were complete failures?

[enhanced_deficit]

Iraq is overrun by ISIS and Afghan violence is as bloody as ever. Millions of lives shattered / tax payers squeezed and lately police stated day in and day out.

If so, does it mean swcbaggery is a failed policy?

[thoughtomator]

According to the bank balances of CEOs of military-industrial complex megacorps, they were both a smashing success

[mosquitobite]

You just don't understand simpleton! A surge, by definition, doesn't mean a short term increase. It means a long term colonization of American soldiers.

[enhanced_deficit]

According to the bank balances of CEOs of military-industrial complex megacorps, they were both a smashing success


You just don't understand simpleton! A surge, by definition, doesn't mean a short term increase. It means a long term colonization of American soldiers.

Okey Dokey.

Taliban flexing muscle with high-profile attacks
Fox News-Dec 3, 2014

Afghan forces ill equipped to fight Taliban without NATO
Reuters-Nov 30, 2014

Politicians 'pulled combat troops out of Afghanistan too early'
Telegraph.co.uk-Dec 2, 2014

[Pericles]

Good tactics may be able to save a bad strategy and bad tactics may ruin a good strategy. - Patton

[enhanced_deficit]

Good tactics may be able to save a bad strategy and bad tactics may ruin a good strategy. - Patton

Bad tactics will turn bad strategy into a MOAD (Mother of all Disasters). - Enhanced Debt

[JK/SEA]

According to the bank balances of CEOs of military-industrial complex megacorps, they were both a smashing success


yep...

end thread.

[invisible]

You just don't understand simpleton! A surge, by definition, doesn't mean a short term increase. It means a long term colonization of American soldiers.

I thought a surge was something that santorum did from behind.