The Surge: Some Success

Is the surge working? Should we ask Pete Domenici for the answer to that?

No. Here is what the commander of coalition forces in central Iraq, Major General Rick Lynch, has said according to the Agence France-Presse.

The AFP reported that Lynch “said the addition of thousands more ‘surge’ troops in recent weeks had enabled him to clear 70 percent of his territory south of Baghdad of insurgents.” (AFP, July 6, 2007, “US exit from Iraq would be a ‘mess’;general”)

Also, the AFP reported that “Under the surge, Lynch said his forces had killed about 50 insurgents and detained about 200 more, including ‘high value’ ones, while uncovering more than 40 weapons caches.”

This is the kind of success that should be reported more often