If nobody robs you at gunpoint when you are in the company of three police officers, do you simply overlook it when you are robbed three blocks away and those officers aren't around? Do you say that the police have robbers in general "on the run" because robbers are now "forced" to only go after people who don't have three police officers standing near them? Do you feel that, over time, robbery will disappear because these criminals will no longer want to prey on a populace if they are limited only to those that do not have three police officers in their vicinity at all times? Do you criticise those who point to the high rates of robbery everywhere else in the city and dismiss them as "supporters of robbery" who want robbers to kill your family and force you into robbery against your will? Would you support housing, feeding, and arming with high-powered weaponry various burglars, drug addicts, dope dealers, car thieves, and rapists if they agree to join the police in their efforts to drive the robbers to the next town over, while letting them continue with their crimes because now they are "good" criminals?
If so, then you probably support the surge, because this is the underlying logic that you must accept for the surge to be credible.
Roadside bomb kills Iraqi governor
An Iraqi provincial governor was blown up
by a roadside bomb today in what appeared to be an escalation of a
power struggle between rival Shi'ite factions that threatens to
destabilise the oil-producing south.
Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, governor of Muthanna province, was on his way
from his home in the city of Rumaitha to Samawa, the provincial
capital, when his convoy of nine cars was hit by a powerful roadside
bomb, provincial officials said.
One bodyguard was also killed and two others wounded.
Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki called for Iraqis to exercise restraint,
saying the perpetrators were seeking to "drown the province in chaos".
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