As we speak, before the third anniversary of the war, the U. S. military does not control the capital, it faces a guerilla movement in Sunni Arab areas that is stronger than ever before. It faces a country that came very recently to the brink of an all-out civil war -- about which the U. S. military could do nothing. It is a bleak picture.
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