The fact that violence is down does not make the surge the right thing to do. You put that many boots on the ground of course violence will go down. The point of the surge was to give room for government reconciliation, has that happened? No. Iraq has a giagantic budget surplus but they cannot even get the electricity on. We paid the SOI not to shoot us, the Iraqi government won't pick up the tab when the money we gave them runs out. Do we pay them again or will they start shooting again?

And I like that you bring up the King of Jordon by using Obama's middle name. Abdullah Hussien. One of our greatest allies in the Middle East like his father before him.