Down the Rabbit Hole

Let's see if I've got this straight. The president says his so-called "surge" that he put into place last January with some 25,000 additional troops is working. Now, he tells us, security has improved. Therefore, on the counsel of his top general in the field he's authorized the gradual withdrawal of those troops until the number of American soldiers in Iraq is 130,000, the number it was back in January before the surge was put into place. In other words, things were a godawful mess, now the situation is arguably improved, so we're going to go back to the way it was when it was godawful. No plan to get the hell out, no plan for success, just do nothing interminably as American boys die and billions of dollars are poured down the tubes every month. Oh, and Osama bin Laden has dyed his beard and is turning out videotapes in less time than Britney Spears spends in rehab.