Not Quite Getting It, Are We?

George W. Bush is blaming the "lack of progress" in Iraq on the insurgents.

While stunningly obvious to most of us, George doesn't quite seem to understand things:

Summing up a year of setbacks, President George W. Bush conceded Wednesday that insurgents in Iraq thwarted U.S. efforts at “establishing security and stability throughout the country.”

Looking to change course, Mr. Bush said he has not decided whether to order a short-term surge in U.S. troops in Iraq in hopes of gaining control of the violent and chaotic situation there.

At this point in time, you could double the number of troops in Iraq, and accomplish no real stability. The country is embroiled in a civil war - the American troops merely make a convenient target from time to time.

My guess is that if the United States backed off Iraq, the civil war would burn itself out in a matter of months. Whether the government that emerged would be an improvement on Saddam Hussein may be a different issue altogether.

Iraq is current day proof of the utter foolishness of trying to impose democracy at gunpoint.