The Surge in Iraq

I'm tired of hearing that the troop surge in Iraq has worked.
What has worked is the new tactic of buying our way in, of basically paying people not to bomb us.
We have established new alliances, between ourselves and between various Iraq factions, and that has worked.
We have taken a new attitude in Iraq.
We have recognized that it is their country, not ours, and we can't tell them what to do.
We have started listening to them and working with them rather than dictating to them.
And we have started buying some loyalty.
Now if we could stop killing innocent civilians, both in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we'd be making real progress.
I think we should be building schools and hospitals all across South Asia and the Middle East instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on the war.