Lowering the Bar

Ok, so many of the conservative blogs and even the mainstream media have been trumpeting the idea that "the surge is working." One can only assume this is a prelude to even grosser displays of triumphalism. Perhaps a new jet landing caper.

Saying the surge is working is a bit like a physician who mistakenly opens up his patient's artery assuming it was a vein. (Other surgeons told him it was an artery but he did not listen and called them weak.) While the patient is bleeding out massively, she loses brain function, function in her major organs and loses both her feet. Finally, the surgeon repairs the artery on the third try leaving behind a vegetative and debilitated patient who will be entirely dependent on others and may still succumb to infection at any time. He then wonders why no one congratulates him on his success.