Making the Surge Work

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Author(s)	David Brooks
Source	The New York Times
Date	January 7, 2007
URL	http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/opinion/07brooks.html
Quote	"The odds that the surge can accomplish these tasks are vanishingly small. The tragic truth is that the social context for this military strategy has changed since 2003. But another surge may be realistic. This surge would begin by giving up the dream of national reconciliation and acknowledging that Iraq is in the process of dividing itself"

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This item takes a mixed stance on the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.