On Iraq: a Sectarian Dictator Falsely Claims a War Against Terror
Al Anbar Sunnis protest for women held in Maliki's sectarian prisons Al Anbar Sunni protesters that the Maliki sectarian regime blood libeled as the "Camp of Yazeed" Iraq is in the news again and not in a good way. The Al Anbar region, a Sunni majority area in Iraq, is again mired in violence. Al Anbar is a region that has seen a disproportionate amount of violence in the post 2003 invasion. There are a number of books written on the US military efforts in Al Anbar and how the US was able to win the confidence of the marginalized and victimized Iraqi Arab Sunni community in the post 2003 Iraq. The lesson of the American war in al Anbar is that it takes empathy, inclusion and strength to gain the trust of the clans of Al Anbar. Blunt force, humiliation and marginalization do not work. Today Maliki is trying to subjugate Anbar under the false claim of fighting al Qaeda. In fact, al Qaeda has no better friend that al Maliki and hi