Iraq surge

The surge in Iraq is working. This is no suprise to any one who has observed the war without a bias. However after the surge is complete there will be a problem with battalions available for deployments.
Basically since there are more troops on deployment "now" as part of the surge that means their are less troops to available to replace them when their deployments are over. What it comes down to is the law of averages. You're using more assets "now" and sometime in the near future, because you've used an extra number of troops, you will have to make due will less later on or not give them as much time off as you had done before.
Certainly, if this happens it will create a political uproar. The Democrats will claim that the war cannot be fought under these conditions... However it is the Democrats who already put more stress on the troops by withholding the last budget bill, which forced the DOD to extend tours to 15 months in order to save money on the preparations and logistics bills that come along with deploying troops.

Does Murder Help?

Regarding the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey in Oakland, California.
The "alleged" suspect, Devaughdre Broussard, called himself "a good soldier" for murduring Bailey. Obviously that statement is degrading to real soldiers throughout the world.
My question is, How is murdering someone who was reporting about the Muslim Bakery, where Broussard worked, accomplishing anything? Seriously, what an absolute idiot this kid must be. Someone reports on legitimate issues and instead of, I don't know maybe debating the issue, you decide to murder him. I don't know how much of a devout Muslim this kid was and I'd like to beleive he's a outcast, but i'm having trouble. I'm suprised how little this story is being covered by the MSM, naturally this is typically a sensitive issue to journalists.
It wouldn't suprise me if they don't want to "offend" muslims by covering the story; i.e. PBS's recent documentary. What I don't get is why this still happens, and why don't any moderate Muslims ever appear on the news denouncing these sorts of things. It'll soon be six years since September Eleventh and since that time you only see muslims denouncing this behavior about as often as the seasons change. I cannot believe how many people in this country can't see that we're bending over backwards to give this country to Muslims who would be more than happy to change things to fit their lives.

Government failure?

As the main topic in the news since it happened last week the bridge collapse in Minnesota has spawned something interesting.
Throughout the news reports their have been little snippets of blame placed on the government, both state and federal.
I truly wonder if either did anything wrong?

A bridge has never spontaneously collapsed before, how was either level of government supposed to know such a thing could happen. Since the idea seemed rather distant until last week how can anyone be blamed. The idea of a bridge collapsing here in Michigan seems as distant today as it did last week, before it was of concern. So in the inevitability of increased DOT funds I wonder if it will make any difference. I assume it will just be done out of necessity to show that the bureaucrats care that much.

My justification is that nobody could have foreseen this event and that is how things will continue in the future. Example; here in Michigan the joke is that we have two seasons, winter and construction. This joke defines the annual suffering of having half of our roads and highways lined with orange barrels from memorial day to labor day. With that in mind no Michiganian would ever suspect a bridge would collapse in Michigan. Why? Well let me assure you it's not because of our superior methods of roadwork. It would be a complete suprise because they're always working on the roads, so how could any of them be in disrepair(at least enough to collapse) when they're worked on almost constantly. And i'm tempted just enough to say that the situation in Minnesota was probably not much different.