Too-slow trickle of results in Iraq as time runs out -- Times of London

Too-slow trickle of results as time runs out

The surge is not useless, as critics have charged, but it was never more than a means to an end: buying a bit more time to enable Iraqi government and security forces to improve. The army is better; the police, a bit; the Government hardly at all.

--Bronwen Maddox, Times of London