Conciliation Promise
The troop surge in Iraq, along with the success realized in the U.S. forces being able to convince Sunni militias to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq has long been credited with turning the tide of events in that besieged and religion-benighted country. The civil war that erupted turning the avenging spirit of the Shia against the Sunnis predominant under Saddam Hussein threatened to bring the country beyond redemption, as sectarian violence thrust events into the sphere of total damnation.It was al-Qaeda's undoing that its bloodthirsty head of operations in Iraq, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi outdid even the original al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden in vile brutality. The tide truly was turned when Sunni tribal leaders experienced the full revulsion of unfettered bloodlust at the hands of al-Qaeda, brutalizing and murdering not only against the Shia majority, but Iraqi Sunnis as well, stunning them into rejection and then reaction.
With the Sunni tribal chiefs rejecting al-Qaeda's program of indiscriminate death-dealing, American forces were finally able to realize the advantage dangling before them, in securing Sunni forces to a common cause; battling al-Qaeda and the foreign fanatical Islamists joining al-Qaeda, flowing over the borders from Syria into Iraq to join the battle against the Crusaders, the infidels and the Iraqi Shia-majority military forces.
In preparation for the allied foreign forces' eventual pull-back and full departure, the U.S. military convinced the government of Iraq that it should absorb the U.S.-allied Awakening Councils comprised of battle-hardened Sunnis into their regular army. The elders of the Sahwas were convinced they should retire, lay down their arms, and permit the younger among them, fit and capable of blending into the regular army, to full co-operation with the government.
There might have been some very real fears that the Shia-dominated Iraqi government and its Shia-dominated army might very well renege on its agreement to take over payroll and absorb direction of the Sahwas, but now their funding through monthly salaries has begun to flow from the government of Iraq, a symbol of the real possibility of reconciliation between the religious factions. And the Sahwas believe their absorption into the army will bespeak equality.
Which marks a real promise for the future for the country, and one that undoubtedly infuriates the still-present and determined army of Wahhabist-aligned jihadists, still up to staging their vile atrocities, with suicide and truck bombings taking hundreds of Iraqi lives each month. Their tactics have continued to degrade their residual humanity in that they descend to the very basest of tactics to achieve their ends.
Enlisting the help of vulnerable women, through ruses, along with those who are mentally unbalanced, and not stopping at encouraging children as young as teens to sacrifice themselves as shaheeds to the cause of militantly fundamentalist Islam.
Labels: Middle East, Terrorism, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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