I say Po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to… and I will be correct in my pronunciation, and you will be wrong.<\/p>\n
The plan is being called SURGE AND ACCELERATE<\/strong>: take control over violence in Baghdad, then speed up the handover of territory to Iraqi forces.\u00c2\u00a0 […]\u00c2\u00a0 Administration officials tell NBC News it will involve sending some 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq.<\/i><\/p>\n You say “surge and accelerate”, I say “Escalation”.<\/p>\n Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!<\/p>\n In 2004, that was roughly John Kerry’s stated position on Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0 Which always seemed liable to change if he could get away with a certain shift in public opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 “Surge”.\u00c2\u00a0 The term hadn’t been concocted yet, but now that it is being used in political discourse, all I can suggest is that one ought to mentally cross out the word “surge” and replace it with “escalate”.\u00c2\u00a0 As in:<\/p>\n Congratulations to the Iraq Study Group, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure the I say Po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to… and I will be correct in my pronunciation, and you will be wrong. The plan is being called SURGE AND ACCELERATE: take control over violence in Baghdad, then speed up the handover of territory to Iraqi forces.\u00c2\u00a0 […]\u00c2\u00a0 Administration officials tell NBC News it will involve sending some 20,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SURGE!!!!<\/s>\u00c2\u00a0 ESCALATE!!!!<\/p>\nsurge<\/s> escalation strategy was right there, amongst the menu items\u00c2\u00a0that made up\u00c2\u00a0their report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"