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S-2,
if the first report continues to hold, we can separate the mahdi army from the populace; then we can begin taking it down as a military organization.
to be honest, i think what these successes in the long-term means is that we may see the organization of iraq into three nominally-affiliated separate states.
however, as long as they're not openly warring with each other, are relatively AQ-free, and have reduced iranian influence, that's good enough given the absolutely desperate situation of a few months earlier, when it looked like the sunni section was going to hell, and the mahdi army had a firm grip on the shi'a.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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