U.S. SURGE FAILING, PEACE DEAL NEEDED

"... a new quarterly report from the United Nations... (shows) the American troop surge appears to be dangerously close to flunking... violence is up 51 percent since this time last year... Compared to the spring of 2010, civilian deaths and injuries are up 20 percent, with 1,090 dead and 1,860 wounded. Over 435,000 Afghans are displaced by the war, a 4 percent rise... the U.S. military’s biggest effort to rescue Afghanistan — the troop surge — failed. Now that the surge is ending, the best the U.S. can do is hope that drones, commando raids, trained Afghan soldiers and some sort of peace deal can end the war."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/u-n-report-shreds-militarys-claim-of-afghanistan-progress/