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Who Lost Iraq? The Iraqis Did
(Washington Post) Fareed Zakaria - From 2003 onward, Iraq faced a Sunni insurgency that was finally tamped down by Gen. David Petraeus, who said explicitly at the time that the core element of his strategy was political, bringing Sunni tribes and militias into the fold. A senior official closely involved with Iraq in the Bush administration told me, "Not only did [Iraqi Prime Minister] Maliki not try to do broad power-sharing, he reneged on all the deals that had been made, stopped paying the Sunni tribes and militias, and started persecuting key Sunni officials."