Re: An Important Milestone in the Iraq War

Following a link at www.rove.com (Karl Rove's website) with this simple summary, "Ingrates Speak," we get to an article at COMMENTARY'S Contentions by Jennifer Rubin in which she refers to President Obama's Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs,' response when he was asked "...if President Bush’s surge policy was to credit for facilitating Tuesday’s accomplishment, Gibbs drew a distinction between security improvements on the ground and political progress among Iraq’s governing factions." Gibbs:

“The president would say, obviously increasing the number of troops in that country improved the security situation,” he said. “But the surge was to improve the security situation so that the political reconciliation could take place. So while the security situation has improved, we still have a lot of work to do on the political side of this equation.”

Rubin added, "It is hard to imagine anything less gracious or less historically accurate. How does he think this political and military progress has been achieved — by magic or by a successfully implemented counterinsurgency strategy?"