Or, perhaps, your enemy - depending on which way you want the trend to go.
Strategypage - IraqIn brief:April 2, 2006: What you see in the Iraq news, is not what you get. The news business demands startling headlines, to attract eyeballs. It's business, as the eyeballs are rented to advertisers to pay for it all. But the reality of the news is less startling, and consists of trends. These are the current trends in Iraq.
Sunnis realize they can't win.
Sunnis realize that Americans are standing between them and a severe ass-kicking for past behavior by Kurds and Shia.
Sunnis realize Al Quadea weren't their friends. Now AlQ ain't welcome, as in "Come near us and we'll kill you" not welcome.
Americans don't scare, like Osama said. (We do have politicians who are flaming cowards, though.) They're REAL good at killing people, and the 'insurgent' losses from attacking Americans were unsustainable.
Terrorists blwo things up and wreck the economy. The Coalition's trying to rebuild. The "If we can't have it, no one can" attitude didn't work for the Sunnis.
Iraq's building a civil society - one that can run itself.
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