Contrary to what we might believe from news accounts, there's more to the President's New! Improved! Iraq policy than just adding more troops.
Instead of clearing an area of insurgents and then leaving, as U.S. troops have been doing for too long, they'll now clear and stay, to secure the neighborhood. They'll stay to provide what has been most missing in this war and what poll after poll say that Iraqis want more than anything else: protection and peace.
Heretofore, we've seen the "whack-a-mole" strategy. Now, we're leaving people to watch each mole to make sure it stays whacked.
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