In Iraq’s Anbar Province, Unfinished Business? -- Washington PostAL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The dust storm swallowed the horizon and then the soldiers, who leaned into the windy blur to load rucksacks onto vehicles pointed homeward. At 3:30 a.m. the next day, their Army battalion would roll out under the cover of darkness, concluding their mission to advise and train Iraqi security forces in Anbar province.
The swath of western Iraq the battalion was leaving behind has seen the bloodiest points of the war, but also some of the most promising. Since the war began, 1,332 U.S. troops have died in Anbar, nearly one in three of all U.S. fatalities. But not one has been killed in action in the province in more than two years.
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My Comment: When it comes to Iraq .... I am super-duper skeptical .... especially when I read news reports like this one. But if the Iraq Sunnis in Anbar are smart, they should cement and position themselves to have the same autonomy that the Kurds in northern Iraq have been able to establish for themselves. But .... Iraq being Iraq .... I have doubts that this is going to happen.