Is President Bush "escalating" the war or "surging" to success?

President Bush has just announced his revamped Iraq war strategy. Prominent among the new strategy's direction is the call for sending an additional 21,500 military personnel to that region. Many Democrats (and some "skeptical" Republicans, like Senator Jim Bunning and others) suggest that the move is too little too late and amounts to an "escalation" -- in fact, Senator Ted Kennedy compared the move to President Johnson's reaction to the bad news from Vietnam. Others (who are les "skeptical", like Senator Mitch McConnell) consider the additional troops as a "surge" to success -- or at least a chance to succeed. Regardless of how one chooses to characterize the President's latest move -- whether an excalation or a surge -- I am doubtful that 21,500 troops are enough to do the job. Even if the number is enough to make a difference, it appears it would have been useful earlier in the war campaign, but now may be too little too late. However, President Bush, as Commander-in-Chief, needs to be given his "double or nothing" chance to succeed, with a realistic timetable (end of summer) for achieving success and a definition of what "success" means as guideposts.