One side hides its will to have the surge fail while the other openly fights to make the surge fail.
To insurgents terrorists, the need for the surge to appear to be failing is their Holy Grail at the moment. Failure will be their victory.
Those here that quietly work to make the surge a failure need to succeed in their political jihad or they fail.
That one side of this believe themselves to be secular humanists while the other thinks themselves to be listening to their god.
Bertrand Russell VS Ayatollah Khomeini or, more correctly Reid VS bin Laden.
The world isn't black and white. A Dichotomy is understood only when both sides are apparent to the observer, otherwise it seems an enigma. Unless the light of a full moon is shone on it.
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