I've seen enough: a belated take on the surge in Iraq

I've now a long time heard various assessments, usually via TV/magazine/newspaper, of the success/unsuccess of the "surge." The clincher for me, after reading a number of books re the war in Iraq (and how it began ... and why) was my reading of the recently authored tome "The Forever War." As a young man, I had trouble understanding the why (and the how) of our fighting in Vietnam; now, with decades of seasoning behind me, I have even more trouble grasping the whys of the current one in Iraq. Among my conclusions? By this war we've made the world a far more dangerous place for America and Americans than perhaps it's ever been. (And the surge is making it even worse.) How can powers in charge claim with straight faces to've kept us safe when the same powers have increased our insecurity by taking on such an ill-advised conflict that sacrifices our credibility internationally (among other qualities we once had more or less in spades)? We keep on flaunting our collective ignorant skirts while (at least some of us, anyway) congratulate ourselves. The surge cannot work (even though some misguided souls insist it's at present working very well) simply because the basic premise(s) for going to war in this case are so seriously, fundamentally flawed. Although I don't consider it the least bit funny, the surge, I assert, is a joke---with the ghoulish laugh on us. It throws good materiel and woman-/manpower after bad. We might as well just hurl our resources into the sea, an act that would likely not do us more harm than our present very expensive activities. These behaviors, both the fighting of a war we cannot afford and the throwing of more pollutants into the world's seas do us (and the world) terribly serious damage. Indeed! such admirably elegant ways we have of committing murder/suicide. Thanx all, Chuck