Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in ??bold?? to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.For years now, Grorge W. Bush has told Americans that he would increase the number of troops in Iraq only if the com

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in ??bold?? to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

For years now, Grorge W. Bush has told Americans that he would increase the number of troops in Iraq only if the commanders on the ground asked him to do so. It was not a throwaway line: Bush said it from the very first days of the war, when he and Pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld were criticized for going to war with too few troops. He said it right up until last summer, stressing at a news conference in Chicago that Iraq commander General George Casey ??Will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there.?? Seasoned military people suspected that the line was a dodge-that the civilians who ran Pentagon were testing their personal theory that war can be fought on the cheap and the brass simply knew better than to ask for more. In any case, the president repeated the mantra to dismiss any suggestion that the war was going badly. Who, after all, knew better than the generals on the ground?
Now, as the war near the end of its fourth year and the number of Americans killed has surpassed 3,000, Bush had dropped the general-know-best line. Sometime next week the President is expected to propose a surge in the number of U.S. forces in Iraq for a period of upto two years. A senior official said reinforcements numbering ??About 20,000 troops,?? and may be more, could be in place within months. The ??surge?? would be achieved by extending the stay of some forces already in Iraq and accelerating the deployment of others.

The ??irony?? is that while the generals would have liked more troops in the past, they are ??cool?? idea of sending more now. That?s in part because the politicians and commanders have had trouble agreeing on what the goal of a surge would be.But it is also because they are worried that a surge would further erode the readiness of U.S.?s already stressed ground forces. And even those who back a surge are under no ??illusions?? about what it would mean to the casualty rate. ??If you put more American troops on the front line,?? said a White House Official, ??You?re going to have more casualties.??

Coming from Bush, a man known for bold strokes, the surge is a strange half-measure---too large for the political climate at home, too small to crush the ??insurgency?? in Iraq and surely three years too late. Bush has waved off a bipartisan rescue mission out of pride, ??stubbornness" or ideology, or some combination of the three. Rather than reversing course, as well the wise elders of the Iraq Study Group advised, the Commander in Chief is betting that more troops will lead the way to what one White House official calls ??Victory??.

Which of the following is the assessment of the Commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in Iraq on the present situation there ?
1). America’s desired goal will be achieved if more troops are deployed in Iraq
2). Withdrawal of troops from Iraq is essential to raise the morale of the U.S. Army
3). Further strengthening of U.S. army in Iraq will be suicidal as it means more destruction of U.S.forces
4). Pentagon’s civilians should not have been allowed to interfere with the army commander’s strategies

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