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Article: Is the surge going to fizzle? Iraq.(The American military surge in Iraq)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2007
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The American military surge into Baghdad will fail unless Iraq's Shia politicians make much bigger efforts to embrace their Sunni compatriots
THE surge of extra American troops into Iraq's battered capital, which began in mid-February, is at last complete. An extra 21,000 of them are now there, bringing their tally in Baghdad up to 31,000-plus and nationwide to 155,000, the highest troop level since late 2005. Senior American officers say that a third of Baghdad now has a degree of "normalcy"; a third, especially those districts with a sectarian fault-line running through them, is still very violent; and a third is in flux.
Once the Americans have ...