Things are going better due to the plan of the surge and an improvement in tactics under General Petraeus. Before we use to sit around, wait on an attack and respond, now there are cleanup missions that are taking the enemy strongholds on.(and that wasn't the troops fault, those were the rules of engagment).
Don't get me wrong though, it wasn't because of the current administration, the idea of a troop surge was fought at the beginning because Bush and all his advisors didn't know how to handle an insurgency. The only republican really fighting for the surge since the beginning was John McCain and now he is reaping the rewards of that due to his candidacy.
@vagabond, do you know what we did to the Nazi insurgent group the werewolves:
General Eisenhower in April 1945 ordered that all partisans were to be shot
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf
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