Troop buildup fails to reconcile Iraq
I heard on the news that in the Pentagon there is growing support for a soft partitioning of Iraq. Do you think it will help?
LATIMES-Baghdad’s neighborhoods continue to split along sectarian lines, violence shifts elsewhere and infighting stalls political progress.
The U.S. military buildup that was supposed to calm Baghdad and other trouble spots has failed to usher in national reconciliation, as the capital’s neighborhoods rupture even further along sectarian lines, violence shifts elsewhere and Iraq’s government remains mired in political infighting.
In the coming days, U.S. military and government leaders will offer Congress their assessment of the 6-month-old plan’s results. But a review of statistics on death and displacement, political developments and the impressions of Iraqis who are living under the heightened military presence reaches a dispiriting conclusion.
