Give the dog a bone

Maybe I'm paranoid, but all the fuss this week about the additional 21,000 troops reminds me of the meat you throw into a pack of dogs to get you to leave you alone. Not that we shouldn't fuss about it! The logic of it is truly staggering -- we've been failing, so let's fail harder! But really, at this point in time we on the left were expecting to be debating the funding for the war, and instead, what the administration has lobbed out has made whether or not to INCREASE troops the issue! Clever.