There is a paradox in the current situation in Iraq. We are told that the surge has worked brilliantly and violence is way down. And yet the plan to reduce troop levels—which was at the heart of the original surge strategy—must be postponed or all hell will once again break loose. Making sense of this paradox is critical. Because in certain crucial ways things are not improving in Iraq, and unless they start improving soon, the United States faces the awful prospect of an unending peacekeeping operation—with continuing if limited casualties—for years to come.
In a brilliant and much-circulated essay written in August 2007, "Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt," David Kilcullen, a veteran Australian officer who advised Gen. David Petraeus during the early days of the surge, wrote, "Our dilemma in Iraq is, and always has been, finding a way to create a sustainable security architecture that does not require 'Coalition-in-the-loop,' thereby allowing Iraq to stabilize and the Coalition to disengage in favorable circumstances." We have achieved some security in Iraq, though even this should not be overstated. (Violence is still at 2005 levels, which were pretty gruesome.) But we have not built a sustainable security architecture.
How does one create a self-sustaining process that leads to stability? Do we need more troops? Longer rotations? Kilcullen points in a different direction: "Taking the Coalition out of the loop and into 'overwatch' requires balancing competing armed interest groups at the national and local level." In other words, we need to help forge a political bargain by which Iraq's various groups agree to live together and not dominate one another. "These [groups] are currently not in balance," Kilcullen wrote, "due in part to the sectarian biases of certain players and institutions of the new Iraqi state, which promotes a belief by Sunnis that they will be the permanent victims of the new Iraq. This belief creates space for terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda in Iraq, and these groups in turn drive a cycle of violence that keeps Iraq unstable and prevents us from disengaging."
Watching the recent spike in suicide bombings, one has to wonder if we are watching precisely that cycle start up again. The sectarian tensions in Iraq have not improved much. The Sunni militias—who switched sides over the past six months—have developed some trust for the United States but little for the Iraqi Army. Reports suggest that as the Iraqi Army gets stronger and better trained, and gets more expensive weapons—none of which are shared with the Sunnis—the latter are becoming more worried that they have made a bad decision. In the crucial province of Diyala last week, thousands of members of "Concerned Local Citizens" groups (CLCs) stopped working in protest over the sectarian activities of the local police force and its chief. U.S. officers have kept promising that a significant number of CLC members would be given jobs in the regular Army and police. That does not appear to be happening anywhere near as fast as it should. At the same time, the new provincial elections that Sunnis and many Shiite groups have demanded for years have once again been delayed. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. forces in Anbar province, publicly warned that if these polls were not held as promised by Oct. 1, it could mean more violence.
There has been some positive news reported in the past few weeks. On closer examination, it is more hype than reality. Two of the laws passed, one reversing de-Baathification and the other offering a limited amnesty to former insurgents, have been worded in such a way that much will depend on how they are implemented—by the Shiite government. The reason these assurances were written into law in binding terms was, of course, that Sunnis place so little trust in the good will and fairness of that government. When Baghdad promises to administer oil revenue wisely and fairly, though there is no law telling it precisely what to do, its claims are met with mistrust and unease by the Sunnis and the Kurds.
A Pentagon report to Congress last week admitted that "all four components of the hydrocarbon law are stalled." The law on provincial elections passed but was then vetoed by the presidency council, specifically by Shiite Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi, whose party now runs most of southern Iraq and does not wish to take its chances in new elections. And it's worth noting that the laws that passed did so only after months of intense wrangling, which produced an 82–82 tie that was broken by the Sunni speaker of Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. Finally, all these measures I've mentioned add up to only three or four of the 18 benchmarks set out by the Maliki government and the Bush administration to judge their own progress.
It's possible that the uptick in violence, the tensions in Diyala and other such signs are just twists and turns in Iraq's troubled path. That is probably the way they will be read in the current atmosphere of self-congratulation in Washington. But they might also be signs that the architects of the surge—chiefly General Petraeus—were right all along when they said that the purpose of the military deployment was to buy time for Iraqis to make political progress. One year into the surge, five years into the war, those metrics have not improved. That's why American troops remain stuck "in the loop" in Iraq.
Editor's Note: Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International, and co-moderator of PostGlobal. His "World View" column and recent pieces for Newsweek can be found here.

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Why is it that no one gets it?
Bush is not in Iraq to simply settle the country down to the point where we can pack up and leave. This never was the point. If you want to know what Bush is doing, then look at what he is doing. He is building a fortified mega-castle of an embassy, and hardened military staging bases around the country, especially near the borders of hostile states. He is building for the long haul.
It is abundantly clear that Bush intends to pacify Iraq solely for the purpose of using that country to establish U.S. hegemony over the area. Why? For one reason, he is convinced that Islam is rising up against the West, even though it is more to the point, to those who live in the Middle East, that Western cultural, political, and now military imperialism, are threatening Islam.
And both Bush and Israel are convinced that Israel needs our military support. This, more than ever because of organized opposition forces, supported by Iran and other political and private interests in the area. Israel got a taste of this in her attack on the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bush is also motivated by the desire to prevent important oil resources in Iraq from falling into hostile hands.
The strange thing is why Bush ever started the Iraq war. An awful lot of careless and arrogant thinking went into the rationale and planning of this venture. With Saddam Hussein in power there was already a measure of political stability in Iraq. He opposed and helped neutralize, in Iraq, Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and Islamic extremism. And he was Iran's only overt enemy in the area. Hussein was doing everything we wanted a dictator to do, almost. Maybe because Saddam was not OUR dictator. He was his own man. And he was an easy target.
So here we are in Iraq, not for the short run, but for perpetuity, for all practical purposes. President Bush turned the apple cart upside down. By destroying the political, social and economic fabric of Iraq, the U.S., and the West, have actually become the problem, not only in Iraq but in the area.
And why not face the inevitable truth that Bush has been giving us an apple cart of senseless rationalizations for his invasion of Iraq?
Posted March 20, 2008 10:06 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 10:06
Why is it that no one gets it?
Bush is not in Iraq to simply settle the country down to the point where we can pack up and leave. This never was the point. If you want to know what Bush is doing, then look at what he is doing. He is building a fortified mega-castle of an embassy, and hardened military staging bases around the country, especially near the borders of hostile states. He is building for the long haul.
It is abundantly clear that Bush intends to pacify Iraq solely for the purpose of using that country to establish U.S. hegemony over the area. Why? For one reason, he is convinced that Islam is rising up against the West, even though it is more to the point, to those who live in the Middle East, that Western cultural, political, and now military imperialism, are threatening Islam.
And both Bush and Israel are convinced that Israel needs our military support. This, more than ever because of organized opposition forces, supported by Iran and other political and private interests in the area. Israel got a taste of this in her attack on the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bush is also motivated by the desire to prevent important oil resources in Iraq from falling into hostile hands.
The strange thing is why Bush ever started the Iraq war. An awful lot of careless and arrogant thinking went into the rationale and planning of this venture. With Saddam Hussein in power there was already a measure of political stability in Iraq. He opposed and helped neutralize, in Iraq, Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and Islamic extremism. And he was Iran's only overt enemy in the area. Hussein was doing everything we wanted a dictator to do, almost. Maybe because Saddam was not OUR dictator. He was his own man. And he was an easy target.
So here we are in Iraq, not for the short run, but for perpetuity, for all practical purposes. President Bush turned the apple cart upside down. By destroying the political, social and economic fabric of Iraq, the U.S., and the West, have actually become the problem, not only in Iraq but in the area.
And why not face the inevitable truth that Bush has been giving us an apple cart of senseless rationalizations for his invasion of Iraq?
Posted March 20, 2008 10:04 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 10:04
Zakaria, have you APOLOGIZED yet for supporting this war five years ago? I remember your columns, spouting nonsense about how democracy in Iraq would stimulate democracies in other Arab countries. Have you ever, in your career, been more wrong? I hope not...this blunder is bad enough. I'm just glad your not in charge of anything consequential.
-Alex
Posted March 20, 2008 9:20 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 09:20
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20 March 2008
Let's just face this one brutal reality: Iraq is "Mission Impossible" for the United States.
There is no chance whatsoever for the U.S. achieving military victory there--never mind what President Bush and VP Dick ("Rasputin") Cheney keep on saying like a broken record.
It was dead wrong for the U.S. to invade and occupy Iraq on false pretenses. Iraq has turned pretty much "Bush's Folly."
Now the U.S. is caught in a sticky quagmire there. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gates and their coterie of "neocons" are clueless on how to wiggle out of this quagmire.
But the American people, fully two-thirds of them now, know what America should do. They want America out of Iraq--quickly but responsibly.
Cut the umbilical cord which has for five long years tied Iraq to the United States and which, paradoxically, has made the supposedly independent and sovereign government of Iraq a vassal or a client-state of the United States--a very costly vassal, mind you, in terms of American lives and treasure.
Once cut, it is quite possible that the Iraqi government will finally step up to the plate and do what a government should do, which is to "govern."
It should then make full use of its over 300,000 military and police forces to stabilize and secure the country. It should then feel compelled to find ways to achieve national reconciliation.
The next administration--provided the American people do not make the tragic mistake of giving indefatigable and unreconstructed warrior John McCain the White House--will put ending the war in Iraq on top, the very top, of its agenda. That will be in faithful obedience to the will of the American people.
Mariano Patalinjug
MarPatalinjug@aol.com
Posted March 20, 2008 5:35 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 05:35
Jakaria -
Name me a conservative idea that is newer than five thousand years. There are basically two kinds of conservatives; those who don't got
it and blame liberals and minorities for it, and those who got it and
only care about keeping it that way.
Posted March 20, 2008 5:16 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 05:16
Jakaria -
Name me a conservative idea that is newer than five thousand years.
There are basically two kinds of conservatives; those who don't got it and blame liberals and minorities for it, and those who got it and
only care about keeping it that way.
Posted March 20, 2008 5:14 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 05:14
as one whose work has been plagiarized by Kilcullen,
I find it offensive to see anything he has "written" being branded as brilliant or innovative.
Fareed, find out who wrote that stuff originally and give them the credit.
That guy Kilcullen has never had one original idea of his own.
Posted March 19, 2008 8:06 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 20:06
as one whose work has been plagiarized by Kilcullen,
I find it offensive to see anything he has "written" being branded as brilliant or innovative.
Fareed, find out who wrote that stuff originally and give them the credit.
That guy Kilcullen has never had one original idea of his own.
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It is a PARADOX only if you accept that the 'surge' is working. If you recognize it for the lie (or misdirection if you prefer) that it is, there is no paradox. We are very simply being misled and lied to, again. And again, the familiar cheerleaders (including Mr. Zakaria) are leading the charge.
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Quite. Iraq is flooded with foreign American fighters (both soldiers and mercenaries) who have so far brought nothing along but instability and chaos. That is why Iraq would only be better off without them. That is what the vast majority of Iraqis think and have been saying openly long enough.
Everything we have done in Iraq has been irresponsible. That military adventure has made us known all over the world as "the irresponsible ones par excellence"! We are last, in the whole universe, who can legitimately claim to know what a responsible solution for Iraq would be. We ought to leave it to the Iraqi people to decide for themselves, and to a third party to facilitate the execution of that task; assuming we can find such a third party... after having discredited and made "irrelevant" all existing ones, in the name of American unilateralism.
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Whether any of you like it or not, the mistake of entering Iraq has already been made, and quickly drawing down troops is not a responsible solution.
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Posted March 17, 2008 9:34 PM
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Here's that Mormon again, Jovez, spilling his trash on this board. He is a Romney supporter. I'm just glad his candidate is now out.
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Thanks so much for the link, Jason.
Impressive, all one finds there. I imagine you are one of the men who testified. Takes a lot of courage to bear witness...
I now want to spend more time on that site.
I'll keep checking there for updates.
Thanks again and all the best.
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"i" & WE have been deliberately discriminated against O.U.R. APOCALYPTARIAN FAiTh!
"i" Have bee Isolated via key-word-blocking. "i" have been Exiled & Vanquished & Robbed etcc, by WASHINGTON POST, NEWSWEEK, NY-POST, NY-TIMES, NBC-Channel 7, NYC et al!
"i", nor any Blogger, is allowed to spell (normaly) Horizontaly, on one Line , either:
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SHAME ON YOU WAPO, Shame Crying Shame:
NOTE: Soon "i" & et al, will sue them (their Prejudice & anti-Constitution & Anti-American) and PROVE O.U.R. Case in Federal Court in N.Y.C..
To start with: ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, and with "PUNITIVE" Damages & Other remedy's, $$1,000,000,000 !!!
"i" divulged TOO MUCH InFO/HONESTY. Now they are trying to Steal The NEW SONG coming from all O.U.R. Old songs for Healing of Nations, WorlD PEace & Many more Prophetic, as Biblically Promised, good tidings, for Better never Worse etc...!
Guess it is a Dog Eat Dog World after all, especiall & Suprisingly at WAPO's "onfaith" (imagine blocking thoese words theirs??) "onreligion" & "postglobal" sites!
WE are Going to have OUR Day in Court Soon. I'll keep ye Posted ALL! Thank You for your Insight And Pattern Recognition ability's, CYBER FRIEND!
Note: They are in Outright Violation of FEDERAL LAW & ORDER(s)!!!!!!!!! Not un-JUSTLY their (O.U.R.) Sweet Sweet Holy Man Made "CONSTITUTION", aka THE-2