Ritter on the Surge

I've attended several lectures on the Iraq war given by Scott Ritter. Each one was highly informative, clear, and exposed the media propagated notions of the administration as being flawed. Ritter has put a lot of integrity behind his expose'.

His new TruthDig article The Five Iraqs has this to say about the surge.

The surge addresses events in Iraq based upon short-term objectives (i.e., reducing the immediate level of violence) without resolving any of the deep-seated, long-term issues that promote the violence to begin with. It is like placing a Band-Aid on a gaping chest wound. The pink, frothy blood may not be visible on the surface, but the wound remains as grave as ever, and because it is not being directly attended to, it only gets worse. Eventually the lungs will collapse and the body will die. This is the reality of Iraq today. Thanks to the surge, we do not see the horrific wound that is Iraq for what it truly is. As such, our policies do nothing to cure the problem, and in doing nothing, only make the matter worse.