‘A War We Just Might Win’ Authors Discuss Surge Success With Chris Wallace

Published: August 6, 2007, 12:40 am

Tags: iraq, military, chris wallace, kenneth pollack, michael o amp 039 hanlon, brookings institution, fox news, fox news sunday

As NewsBusters reported Monday, two analysts for the liberal think tank the Brookings Institution published a rather shocking op-ed at the New York Times expressing extraordinary optimism about how the surge is working in Iraq. The pair, Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, were Chris Wallace's guests on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, and continued to share positive sentiments about what's currently happening in the embattled nation. After an introduction, Pollack spoke first (video available here, h/t Hot Air): Well, you see in a few places in Iraq some very dramatic changes. The one that everyone knows about is Anbar province, where the Sunni sheiks have flipped on Al Qaida in Iraq and the other Salafi groups and are now working with U.S. forces.But there are also some important things that we saw in other places. Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, which at one point in time required tens of thousands of troops just to keep the place from flying part, was now mostly

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