I doubt the "O" will condone a surge because he still believes them to fail.
Bloody Summer In City: 125 Dead In Chicago, Double Number Killed In Iraq...
Chicago, the new Anbar province, but with violence, appears to be in a civil war and Obama needs to meet with the different factions with no pre-conditions. Maybe Chicago and Illinois need new leadership and to be split up into three states so as to decentralize the violence into different areas. You know, just to protect citizens unable to govern and protect themselves from themselves and each other. It's out of control and probably lost. Forever.