From last night’s Special Report with Brit Hume:

—On the President and the Pentagon—

FRED BARNES: I don’t think there’s any firm disagreement at all. What you have is some qualms about sending troops temporarily to Iraq by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They wonder whether “temporarily” will only sustain your gains, temporarily as well . . .
And the second qualm the Pentagon has is whether President Bush is prepared to send a large enough surge . . . to really make a difference and those are legitimate qualms. I don’t think that there was a substantial disagreement in any way. But these things are going to have to be worked out between the Pentagon and the president if there is to be a surge, and I think there is to be.

—On the Surge—

MORT KONDRACKE: The question is — can you really do what the mission calls for? . . . [I]s 30,000 enough to secure Baghdad over a period of time?
That involves cleaning out the bad guys, holding the territory, having troops living in the neighborhoods to provide ongoing security, and then when the Iraqi security forces can take over, then you move on to Anbar. This is a two-year operation and the question is, is 30,000 enough to do it?
Colin Powell says this is a city of eight million people; 30,000 or 50,000 is not enough and we don’t have enough troops to do it and I don’t know whether the — what the Pentagon position is on that. I would think they would want to be very clear that this time they’re going to do better than Operation Together Forward did the last time with a lot fewer troops.
BARNES: In any case they would pick out parts of the city. You don’t have to do all of Iraq, you don’t even have to do all of Baghdad at once. You go from neighborhood-to-neighborhood starting with of mixed Shia and Sunni residents because that’s where most of the terrorism takes place.