What are the results so far of the change of tactics in Baghdad? Robert Kagan says first indications are that the surge is bearing fruit. The FT's Gideon Rachman is not so sure:
I would love to believe Kagan is right. But the Iraq Body Count project, which monitors the violence in Iraq more closely than any other impartial group, does not agree. Its latest weekly analysis shows no let up in the violence, and is the usual compilation of gut-wrenching stories. The Swoop foreign-policy analysis service asserts that President Bush is being told privately that the new strategy is not working.
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