I will agree with that...
The Sunnis in Iraq had a few choices of either submitting to their foreign Al-Q types or joining us (arms, training, funding) and beating back AL-Q in Iraq and re-gaining control of their towns and cities...
What the hell were we thinking...they are not our brothers in arms and they care nothing for Western democracy...
Exactly - the hidden face of the surge...the consequence of that was when the Shia moved in during the Sunni exodus and strengthened their position in Sadr city and unleashed a month worth of mortar and rocket attacks...
“What the hell were we thinking...they are not our brothers in arms and they care nothing for Western democracy...”
Kind of late to come to this conclusion as 4,000 US soldiers have been sacrified to supposely “save their ass from a dictator”!