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...their energy explaining themselves. As they try to prove that they understand the complexities of Iraq and care about the continuing tragedy, mawkish sentimentality and ham-fisted didacticism join forces to drain the project of all dramatic coherence. After curfew in Samarra, in Iraq’s volatile Sunni triangle, two Iraqi teenagers approach an American checkpoint. Unarmed and submissive, the teenagers reflexively put up their hands—and the Americans respond by throwing the both off the bridge. One drowns. It’s a shocking incident, and the film sets out to unravel its repercussions. The boy?...
...taught Iraqis not to be optimistic. In recent weeks, some things have got better - but it is hard to know if they will last. The massive, U.S.-led security operation in Baghdad has brought some relief. The daily death toll, which had risen to 100 last fall, has dropped. Sunni terrorists continue to kill innocent civilians with car bombs and suicide attacks, but at least the Shi'ite militias have melted away. U.S. military commanders see this as a victory, but few Iraqis are so sanguine. They know that the American soldiers will leave, and worry that the militias...
...Satterfield added that he believed the string of suicide bombings that killed dozens of pilgrims represented "a stepped-up effort by the al-Qaeda terror campaign, by elements of the Sunni insurgency, in trying to thwart the Baghdad security plan by inflaming sectarian violence, by provoking the death squads back into action...
...long run, a stable Iraq cannot have extremists in the Mahdi Army act on their own against the Sunnis, the Coalition, or the government," Cordesman told TIME. "In the short run, the key priority for military operations is to build security as soon as possible, avoid unnecessary confrontations with the Mahdi Army and militias [and] focus on active threats, whether Sunni or Shi'ites. This is a search for least bad options that have many conflicting priorities, and the best possible solution is going to be messy, involve contradictory priorities, and force the U.S. to constantly adapt to the realities...
Conditions for Walter Reed's outpatients are probably far better than the scandal suggests. But in a war with few supporters, it's in theaters like Building 18, rather than the Sunni Triangle, where the contest for public opinion is lost...