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[bryant]

Since we decided to stop attacking Fallujah, it's turned into a theocracy. This should come as no surprise to anyone. I don't think that crushing the city would have been productive either; you'd have gotten entirely different problems.

Maybe it's worth allowing the city to become an independent state in order to minimize the risk of Sunni unrest. Mostly it shows how many unpalatable alternatives we have in Iraq.

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[bryant]

Yep! Partitioning is another bad solution. The Turks, of course, are mostly worried about losing bits of Turkey.

I carefully don't pretend to have a good solution. I had a good solution two years ago, but it involved not invading Iraq.