Assessment on the "Surge" in Iraq from a policymaker

Although politics and foreign affairs are generally not the focus of my blogs, I ran across this article (linked to the title of this blog) by Peter Feaver and couldn't help but notice it. I am particularly interested in his comments as I have tried a couple times to get him to speak here at Cornell, but it turns out that he is a really busy guy. In any event, his first hand experience pertaining to the development of the most recent strategy in Iraq, namely the Surge, makes his assessment of the successes and continued challenges of that strategy all the more enlightening. It is a perspective that, apparently, is out of favor with the majority of the media outlets.