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Astralis Reply
So how does our successes move forward nat'l reconciliation? One heavily patrolled, armed, maybe walled, cleansed, but secure neighborhood at a time?
These tribal openings have been the only good news to date. Our troops have shown incredible acumen in filling the gaps. But the backfill from everybody else (diplomats, bueraucrats, technocrats, PRTs, NGOs, etc.) seems lagging given the temporal nature of this window.
Pardon my cynicism as I really admire the breakthroughs achieved by our guys but it highlights to me the severe state of Iraq six months ago that we can find such hope in this modest advance of the most grass-roots nature. It's spreading laterally, and that's really good. How to move this vertically seems the challenge to me.
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