Michael Yon takes on Harry Reid

In this Hugh Hewitt interview, via National Review's the Tank:

HH: Now yesterday, Harry Reid said on the floor of the Senate that
the surge has failed. Do you think there’s any factual basis for making that
assertion, Michael Yon, from what you’ve seen in Iraq over the last many
months?

MY: He’s wrong, he’s wrong. It has absolutely not failed, and in
fact, I’m finally willing to say it in public. I feel like it’s starting to
succeed. And you know, I’m kind of stretching a little bit, because we haven’t
gone too far into it, but I can see it from my travels around, for instance, in
Anbar and out here in Diyala Province as well. Baghdad’s still very problematic.
But there’s other areas where you can clearly see that there is a positive
effect. And the first and foremost thing we have to do is knock down al Qaeda.
And with them alienating so many Iraqis, I mean, they’re almost doing it for us.
I mean, yeah, it takes military might to finally like wipe them out of Baquba,
but it’s working. I mean, I sense that the surge is working. Reid is just
wrong.

That's what I've been saying, but sounds better coming from the other Michael.