Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
It sounded to me like his logic was that the success or failure of the surge needs to be measured by the goals set out for it. There were specific "benchmarks" set out by which to measure the accomplishments of the surge, and his argument was that those were not met, so the surge did not accomplish its goals, therfore it failed.

Making progress is great, but it's not the same as succeeding.
8 out of 18 have been met I believe.

And having ideas is great, but putting them into practice is not the same as saying it out loud.

Words for thought. It's easy to criticize when your hands are clean of the situation.