Michael Totten on the Ahbar Awakening
Can’t possibly do this justice other than to say a must read from Michael Toten on the Anbar Awakening.
It really drives through the point that only the Iraqis can actually win in Iraq, we can’t do it for them. Though we certainly can do a lot of the heavy lifting as this photo of an Iraqi child’s artwork, lifted from Toten’s article, suggests

As Michael observes, the sword is Iraqi and the muscle American.
It really drives through the point that only the Iraqis can actually win in Iraq, we can’t do it for them. Though we certainly can do a lot of the heavy lifting as this photo of an Iraqi child’s artwork, lifted from Toten’s article, suggests

As Michael observes, the sword is Iraqi and the muscle American.