Is the 'surge' in Iraq going to happen?

[mburbank]

You may be the only person here who will believe me when I say I hope you are right and I'm wrong. I think the # of troops we'd need to have a critical impact on supply lines is way larger than the amount we're talking about sending, or for that matter the # we have.

I also think the biggest downfall in your logic is that it's logical. We'd be nuts to attack Iran without the solid backing of the rest of the world. But a lot of people with their hands on the wheel are balls to the wall nuts. I think it was pretty clearly nuts to invade Iraq without anything resembling a strategy, but we did that already.

I'll just leave it at saying I hope you're right. I would love to eat crow on this one.