2008-01-01 40-Second Boyd and the Big Picture Part 2

2008-01-01 \US occupation of Iraq\David Petraeus http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000171.html Forty Second Boyd and the Big Picture (Part 2) &ldquo;I think the Surge has had spectacular success not because of the additional troops so much as for the fact that when the media and the Democrats demanded we cut and run... we did not cut and run. We doubled down. When the calls for defeat and dishonor were at their loudest â€“ sad to say a not unwarranted street rep we had made for ourselves â€“ somehow, somehow we simply just hung on and gave them not a retreat but a charge. .. Jesus Christ, but that must have gotten someoneâ€™s attention. Yes, the Surge is working. But I believe it is not a surge of boots that is doing the work so much as it is a surge of hope.&rdquo;   