Liberally Biased : Escalation in Iraq

The United States is simply stretched too thin. Without a military draft, 22, 000 troops are about all that can be mustered. There is no reason to think escalation can stem the violence. We put more than half a million troops in Vietnam, and things never got any better. Unless we are prepared to literally flatten Iraq, destroying a sizable percentage of the people living there, escalation will not do. Sending a mere 22, 000 troops and expecting an improvement is like trying to plow the sea. All it will achieve is a surge of American body bags.