Other than semantically, is the "surge" really just beginning?

Question

The war supporters are parroting the line that the troop surge is just now in place. Assuming for the moment that all the additional soldiers are finally there, my question is whether the buildup has been linear or concave. That is, is whatever that happened in the past few weeks to complete the escalation actually significant or did the vast bulk of the surge occur early on and whatever happened recently just minor additions around the edges? There is an obvious motivation for the administration to draw out for as long as possible the surge being complete: whenever things are going bad they can just say that the surge has not yet been completed in order to deflect criticism. Sure it is a cynical view, but with this administration's track record I would not be surprised in the least if something along these lines were true. I have no idea of the actual numbers or facts on the ground so any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It is true. The Surge has just finished getting on the ground. On the other hand it began a while ago, as soon as the first troops started landing.

While we cannot make true predictions to success of the operation, due to the large amount of discussion on the subject and that I found independent research on it, I was able to look at the 'very early' results.

To see the ground soldier's view of those results as well as the link to the original data, see my blog article entitled "The Surge": http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7dK5B7LcNROoyVQ--;_ylt=AiNXZokI1G6zowgYXNnJS9m0AOJ3?cq=1

No politics. Just the truth. The Ground Truth. From someone that has been there.

Answer 2

The 'surge' is what in the Vietnam era was called 'escalation'. It was BS then and it's BS now. We 'surge', and they 'surge'.....in the end we get slowly chewed up. We're on their turf where they have every advantage. It takes ten conventional force warriors to defeat a single resistance fighter. Over time they have at least a half a million fighters...what do have to compete with that? If the US instituted a draft, raised an army of 10 million and allowed that force to act in whatever ruthless manner it saw fit...yeah..we could 'win'...the question is..what exactly would we have won? The 'Axis of Evil' is now a franchise operation...smaller and smaller groups...They walk amoung us! Spooky eh?

Answer 3

Pittsburgh calls a time out. They're sending in a new linebacker. He's John Doe, a fellow that can run the 100 yard dash in four seconds, and weighs 500 pounds. They're still lining up to make the first play, but they haven't made a single yard since he was put in. Guess John is a total failure as a linebacker.