Petraeus adviser: Violence reduction due to ‘luck.’

[ProSense]

Petraeus adviser: Violence reduction due to ‘luck.’

In an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, Gen. David Petraeus’s adviser Steven Biddle said that much of the U.S.’s recent “tactical successes” in Iraq have little to do with the impact of Bush’s escalation but instead are largely “luck.”

Q: Well what do you attribute this whole change on the ground to? Is this due to what is called “the surge,” or good diplomacy by the U.S. military, or just luck]?

BIDDLE: All of those things have some role but I would put “luck” as probably the biggest.

Breaking News: Sunnis and Shi'a in Iraq Don't Trust Each Other (and none of them trust Americans)

[Solly Mack]

1. Some days I am simply amazed

Need aspirin now

[ProSense]

2. It has been one of those days. n/t

[MadMaddie]

3. Well add to that luck a little pinch of Ethnic cleansing and a

redistribution of the population out of the main cities and voila you have a lower rate of attacks and murders!! :sarcasm:

Are they really that stupid?

[eridani]

4. That and giving lots of money to former insurgents

And ethnic cleansing that has already been done.