John Hinderaker is skeptical; he points out that "the lions don't have to lie down with the lambs for our interests to be vindicated," and explains:

I am deeply skeptical of the "Goldilocks" theory of victory in Iraq: we have to have just the right number of troops to be successful; not too many, not too few. It's hard to imagine what 149,000 troops can accomplish that 140,000 couldn't--especially if the mission of most of those additional 9,000 is to pacify Baghdad.

Via Insty, who has a few more surge links here.

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