A story from the IPS news service about the morale of American forces in Iraq says that the morale of troops is so poor that many outfits are engaging in "search and avoid tactics where they go out on patrol, park up somewhere and phone in once an hour to say they're still looking. One of the soldiers quoted in the article, now back in the states, said that he had recently received an email from a mate still in Baghdad:
"He just told me that nearly each day they pull into a parking lot, drink soda, and shoot at the cans. They pay Iraqi kids to bring them things and spread the word that they are not doing anything and to please just leave them alone."
Does that qualify as a surge?
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