Amidst all the NYT handwringing in this piece there is an extra-ordinary admission: the surge worked.
The Surge. Better intel. Disciplining the Iraqi police. Getting the Sunni sheiks on our side. The Sons of Iraq. A better understanding that by mid 2006 Iraq was in a sectarian war. Mookie vamoosing to Iran. And, as it turns out, the efforts of a lot of Iraqi civilians who got tired of all the killing and decided to help make it stop.
General Petraeus, and 140,000 American troops, and many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, got it right. The NYT implicitly admits it.
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