Heads I win, tails you lose

The logic is impeccable. If the "surge" is working, that proves we have to do more of it. If the "surge" isn't working, that means we have to do more of it.

Gen. David Petraeus said the "horrific and indiscriminate attacks" that killed at least 250 Yazidis, an ancient religious sect, in northwestern Iraq Tuesday night were the work of al-Qaida in Iraq. That would bolster his argument, he said, against too quickly drawing down the 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed in the first half of the year.