Surge Produces Yet Another Stunning Victory
RAMADI, Iraq, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. military handed over Iraq’s Anbar province to Iraqi security forces on Monday, less than two years after it almost lost the western region to a Sunni Arab insurgency.
“We are in the last ten yards of this terrible fight. The goal is very near,” Major-General John Kelly, commander of U.S. forces in Anbar, told U.S., Iraqi and tribal officials gathered near Anbar’s government headquarters.
“Your lives and the lives of your children depend on victory.”
What happened about two years ago was something that Barack Obama opposed in his general ignorance called the “surge”. The infusion of US troops showed the tribes in Anbar that we would not abandon them as we had abandoned them after Gulf War I. We proved that, despite surrender-hungry Democrats, we would not leave them helpless to the Islamists.
And now we are seeing the beginning to the rewards of our faithfulness in Anbar Province.
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