Michael Yon has a new dispatch, The Ghosts of Anbar, Part 1 of 4. As usual, it’s a good report and I look forward to the remaining parts. I don’t agree with this paragraph, but what do I know?
Any premature history of this war will be as simplistic as a woven carpet, but some patterns are clear even today: crushing Fallujah backfired. If only because the timing assured a near total Sunni boycott of the first and most important national election, the start of nation-building politics, the same process that is now so widely acknowledged as the only path to a secure and self-sufficient Iraq.
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