You know, when you think about how US forces are at times being killed by the very people they're supposedly training, this really comes across as an astonishingly bad concept--or a sign of total desperation:
With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.
Attaturk saw the same story...and links to this as further confirmation:
Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling
Oh, one more thing: the Times article notes we've spent $15 billion dollars "building up" Iraq's army and police force...which means not only have we been played for suckers in a horrific, tragic, and deadly game, but we've squandered funds that could've made a substantial down payment on, oh, I don't know, only coastal restoration. Nice work.
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