The surge is working in Iraq to divide the country into sectarian enclaves, separating the population into Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis ... also resulting in an enormous number of refugees fleeing both to other countries and to other areas within Iraq from their homes.
And the surge is working in Iraq to create allies for our military forces from Sunni insurgents.
And this is supposed to be success?
It is seen as success in achieving the strategic objective of the United States in securing access to Iraqi oil ... which for me has always been the basic goal since day one. If we can't do it because we bungled the post-war period thereby seeding the civil war now raging, then we will do it by choosing up sides with those (Kurds and Sunnis) most likely to align with us.
We can forget democracy because the majority are Shiites and their affinity tends towards Iran, not us or our ally, Saudi Arabia. (Please note that the same logic holds for the Palestinian areas between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea ... not that they affiliate with Iran, but against us and our ally, Israel.)
Is this wrong ... or right, for that matter? Neither. It's reality ... the realpolitik of power politics reality ... really.
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