Late yesterday, following an acrimonious lunch meeting between President Obama and Senate Republicans on immigration reform, news broke that the White House would be ordering 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border for an indefinite time period and would be allocating an additional $500 million in border security technology and interior enforcement.

If this sounds somewhat familiar to you, that’s because it is. The plan echoes former President Bush’s 2006 Operation Jump Start, which deployed thousands of National Guard troops to the border for a two-year commitment. Even the AP’s headline for the story was, “Obama’s border plan looks similar to Bush’s.”

And four years later what did those thousands of troops and hundreds of millions of dollars accomplish?

It brought us to where we are now—with a broken immigration system, thousands of cruel deaths at a highly militarized U.S.-Mexico border, and no comprehensive reform to be seen.

The move also appears be a political surrender to Senate Republicans such as Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl who have refused to budge on cooperating with Senate Democrats’ or Obama’s immigration reform legislative efforts with a sophisticated policy mantra of “border security first.”

So how did the Republicans respond to Obama’s capitulation?

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions: “The president’s decision…will not fix the problem.”

Arizona Senator John McCain: “No one…believes that’s enough.”

Texas Senator John Cornyn: “His proposal comes up short.”

Reports are now emerging on Fox News that Republicans are pushing Obama to “quintuple-down” on his decision and to commit 6,000 troops to the border. If you give a Republican a cookie…

Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Both in border policy and political strategy, Obama would be well-served to pay attention to Mr. Einstein’s description.