Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Yon on the Surge

"…the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous."

Michael Yon knows about Iraq. As a journalist who has spent most of the last 4 years
embedded with Americans, British and Iraqi units, he knows. And Michael Yon wrote recently that we should "surge some more" because the Iraq War you think you know is not necessarily the Iraq War that exists today.

[Read the article here.]

Yon concludes, "We stand now at the moment of truth. Victory – and a democracy in the Arab world – is within our grasp. But it could yet slip away if our leaders remain transfixed by the war we almost lost, rather than focusing on the war we are winning today."

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