Buying Time

Our man in Bahgdad, Ambassador Crocker, was on Meet the Press this weekend. He said the surge is supposed to "buy time" for the Iraqi government to get it together. "Buy Time?" Call me crazy but haven't we bought them time in the last four years? And how much are we willing to pay for this time? How many of our soldiers will die because Bush cannot admit he is a failure?

Meanwhile, our other man on the scene in Iraq, General Patraeus, says we will be there for another ten years, give or take. I wonder if this war had actually been run competently would we be willing to go for that? But, if we had run the war competently we wouldn't be still fighting there would we?