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ARTICLE: Military Considers Sending as Many as 35,000 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, McCain Says, By JOHN F. BURNS, New York Times, December 15, 2006
1) Bush rejects the timetable
2) Rice is trotted out to reject on Iran and Syria
3) the military is poised to push the "go big" option and Bush is poised to "submit" to the generals (oh yeah!).
The only bright spot is one everyone had agreed upon earlier and which was in the works for months: more trainers.
But it is stunning when you think of the elections and what Americans said through them: Bush is basically blowing it all off.
On the "go big," I'm not pissed. I get the logic and it beats the "go small" and hope for better, but it can't be sustained and the training shift (or what I call "Vietnam backwards") won't constitute the tipping point the generals are hoping rather wishfully for.
The failure of this track will be linked back to two things: 1) the failure to engage the neighbors and 2) the failure to generate the preconditions of a true exit strategy--aka, jobs (Chiarelli's swan song).
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