David Ignatius - Pushing all the chips into the pot

David Ignatius - The Right Bet in the Mideast - washingtonpost.com: "President Bush's 'surge' is a mistake because it is piling more precious chips -- more human lives -- on what so far has been a losing bet. The public sent a clear message in the November election that it wants to take some of those chips off the table. That cautionary theme -- that it's time to reduce America's bet on the long shot that Iraq's sectarian mess can be fixed quickly -- was ably distilled by the Iraq Study Group in its December report."