Everyone's happy. Thanks to the news blackout, the MSM media is keeping its big mouth shut and the usual idiot activists don't know what to bitch about. Sounds like a plan to me.
Same article appears on David Warren's blog with a shorter title: "Going Offstage"
I think he is right on that. The fact that the MSM largely stopped reporting from Ramadi allowed our troops to do in Ramadi what they had previously done in Fallujah. Taking the gloves off in the heart of Anbar then played a big part in convincing the Anbar tribes to come over to our side. As one Iraqi recently said, 'The tribes never win wars, they only join the winners.'
Shhot, shovel and shut up, writ large!
It must be great if the MSM is keeping it hush-hush.
After processing numerous internet rumors, here is my speculative take: I believe that Syria was trying to facilitate the transfer of critical nuclear technology/materials from North Korea/Russia to Iran which would have given them a ballistic nuclear capability in weeks to months. US intelligence became aware, and decided to share the info with Israel under stringent security with very limited need to know. Israel conducted the raid to eliminate these assets, and the raid was successful. The French see the endgame and partially in response to this have changed sides, Syria, NK, Russia, and Iran are now the axis of evil.