The Surge is an old French Strategy

McCain' guts(?) in supporting the surge. I don't think it took guts, it simply took reading history. My post written right after the surge started:

All French generals write books about tactics and strategies that others later use to succeed grandly. Remember it was DeGaulle who wrote the first book on tank led infantry attacks, attacks which came to be known as Blitzkreig (Heinz Guderian's book, Actung Panzer, was later). Patton read both books, and we all know how that turned out.

So the Pentagon has read a book written by a dead French general named Galula, the guy who won in Algeria. I didn't know that the French Army had totally defeated the Muslims in the Algerian insurgency back in '54-'58 as a result of Galula's Algerian strategy; I thought the French Army lost it; I credit the left media for my mis-understanding. This link to a major article in Commentary (note: link is down, the piece immediately below summarizes it) will teach you once and for all exactly how we are finally trying to win the war in Iraq. Read it, because it at last it looks like we are succeeding in Iraq while the Democrats and the Left engineer our defeat here at home, exactly like Sartre and the rest engineered the Algerian defeat within France. The summary of the Commentary article regarding the Algerian "defeat"

Divisions over Algeria doomed France’s Fourth Republic. For its successor, the price of political survival was handing over Algeria to a totalitarian band that had lost the war on the battlefield but managed to win a stunning victory in France itself. The result was the massive flight of Algerian whites and, at home, a bloodbath as FLN terrorists put to death tens of thousands of Muslim Algerians who had been loyal to the French regime. Soldiers who had fought alongside the French were forced to swallow their medals before they were shot.

This is the so-called "solution" the Democrats and our elites would have for us. Their purpose, because they believe that America is evil and must be stopped, is the defeat of our military through actions AT HOME. All elite people want to be Sartre, the great writer-philosopher who sat on his ass and wrote about brave people. America cannot be defeated on the ground. A political defeat engineered at home is the only way for the Left to save face, discredit the President (as if the president doesn't do everything to discredit himself) and assure a Democrat victory in '08. The major article is a must read for informing yourself, only because once again this absolutely awful president is incapable of articulating anything. It's better reading than you will find anywhere else this weekend, including at this blog.