Kicking US tush, what the fuck are you yapping about? The canadian loony is back
Even a stopped brain can be right twice a day, the surge coincided with the adoption of the strategy of bribing mullahs and militias (in Afghanistan they buy them Viagra) to stop attacking US troops. Pre 'surge' the casualties were getting so high even the MSM couldn't keep pretending nothing was happening.
If the idiots in charge hadn't disarmed and disenfranchised the Baathists after 'mission accomplished' then there wouldn't have been an insurgency in the first place.
If we didn't need to rub our collective Freedom cocks in the faces of the world we should have just kept Saddam in the first place, China does GREAT by bribing local dictators and militias and their people don't GAF about the locals getting repressed in shithole 3rd world countries as long as China keeps making bank