The Military is Political

Rich Lowry talks about that Ralph Peters column:

That’s a hoary anti-surge cliché. If Sadr is hiding, it shows just how false it is. The military and political fronts are in constant interaction. It is in response to a military tactic–the surge—that Sadr has apparently taken an action that, as Peters explains today, will have political consequences. It is true that there is no purely military solution in Iraq, but neither is there a purely political solution.