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Tom vents his frustration over on Broad Sunlit Uplands: -

The U.S. went into Iraq with no plan, just hopes and dreams. It would have taken about 60,000 troops, Armor, Mech., and Air Cavalry to overthrow Saddam. It would have taken about 400,000 troops of all kinds to overthrow Saddam, secure the country, and create a provisional government: if the Iraqi’s supported us and Kurdistan was allowed to break away. It will take 2.5 million troops of all kinds, plus civilian/paramilitary officials to secure
Iraq now against the will of the Iraqi’s. And then Iraq will only be secure while we have 2.5 million troops there. It will revert to type, as soon as we leave. There is no true model of permanent success: some ideas are just plain bad.

So it’s not just me that thinks that the surge is severely half-arsed.