more: "Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said lead author John Agnew, a UCLA professor of geography and authority on ethnic conflict. "By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left."

"If the surge had truly 'worked,' we would expect to see a steady increase in night-light output over time, as electrical infrastructure continued to be repaired and restored, with little discrimination across neighborhoods,"

I see the light. The muzzle light that drove a people to turn on one another coming from US guns. Divide and conquer. Shame on US, creating more strife. The Republican Party Platform uses the word peace only in conjunction with threats and intimidation thru war and conflict. And it uses that word peace very few times, very few.

No.