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Darkness on the Sunni Side...
...noted that Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, which makes up most of the anti-U.S. insurgency, needs to join in its country's political process [Oct. 17]. But is it possible that the Sunni insurgents truly do not know what they are doing? Their unfortunate victims have left behind spouses, children and friends, and those survivors are the people with whom the insurgents will ultimately have to share a country. I doubt that the Shi'ites will ever associate with the Sunni killers as fellow citizens or do business with them. The Sunnis have engendered a legacy of hatred...
That kind of paranoia is one reason the U.S. troop presence, while an irritant to many Iraqis, may be the only thing preventing a slide into a sectarian bloodbath. The Bush Administration hopes that increased Sunni political participation will help defuse the insurgency. But elections have proved an insufficient antidote to the violence, and the U.S. and Iraq's new leaders have given sullen Sunnis few tangible reasons to support them. Because of security concerns, the State Department has only one envoy and one staff member from the U.S. Agency for International Development for the whole of Anbar province...
...ground say they have denied terrorists a base in Fallujah. But across Iraq, the insurgency hasn't been curbed. October was the fourth deadliest month for U.S. troops since they invaded Iraq in March 2003, and last week 27 more Americans died in insurgent attacks, many of them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model...
...Darkness on the Sunni Side You noted that Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, who make up most of the anti-U.S. insurgency, need to join in their country's political process [Oct. 17]. But is it possible that the Sunni insurgents truly do not know what they are doing? It is evident that they are proficient in killing innocent people, but to what purpose? Their unfortunate victims have left behind spouses, children and friends, and those survivors are the people with whom the insurgents will ultimately have to share a country. I doubt that the Shi'ites will ever...