Iraq-Escalation By The Numbers

"Someday, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term 'surge' -- as in the President's 'surge' plan (or "new way forward") announced to the nation in January -- was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam era. As there were to be no 'body bags' (or cameras to film them as the dead came home), as there were to be no 'body counts' ('We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team' was the way the President put it), as there were to be no 'quagmires,' nor the need to search for that 'light at the end of the tunnel,' so, surely, there were to be no 'escalations.'" Escalation by the Numbers What "Progress" in Iraq Really Means By Tom Engelhardt