Arianna Huffington: A Surge of Insanity (by Harry Reid)

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Arianna Huffington: A Surge of Insanity

Arianna Huffington Mon Dec 18, 1:18 PM ET

Harry Reid started off well on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, answering a question about Iraq by saying, "We have to change course in Iraq, that was determined on November 7th and the people feel even more strongly today than they did on November 7th. By the first quarter of 2008, American troops should be out of there."


But then the segment, to borrow from a recent but already dead report, became grave and deteriorating. Stephanopoulos asked what Reid would do if the president -- as he's expected to -- calls for even more troops to be sent to Iraq.

"If it's part of a program to get us out of there as indicated by this time next year, then sure I'll go along with it," he said.

To which Stephanopoulos rightly asked: "How will you know that it's going to be temporary?"

Of course, Reid doesn't know that. Nor did Reid broach the question whether the so-called troop "surge" is the right thing to do -- even if it were guaranteed to last but a single day........