The "Surge" Cures All

If it worked over there, why not over here?

Answering a question about his approach to combatting crime, John McCain suggested that military strategies currently employed by US troops in Iraq could be applied to high crime neighborhoods here in the US. McCain called them tactics "somewhat like we use in the military…You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control."

Because that's what America's police departments have been lacking lately.  Not enough military-like force.  Just throw some tanks and Humvees at the inner cities.  That'll calm 'em down.

Think of all the other problems "surges" could solve.  I'm seeing the "Anti-Poverty Surge," the "Health Care Surge," and the "Anti-Obesity Surge."  And of course, all we really need to finally win the drug war is a "surge"—a three-month blast of troops, guns, and ammo ought to do.