Rising Hegemon
Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians have surged 22 percent to record levels, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
The report also noted a rise in civilian casualties and said this was directly linked to the rise of sectarian death squads, which were helped by elements of Iraqi forces.
As Atrios said:
six months after Operation Forward Together and then Together Forward and then Together Forward II: Electric Boogaloo was supposed to be our one last shot at this very critical juncture blahblahblah...
Operation Together Forward btw included an influx of more than 20,000 troops and it was supposed to solve all of Iraq's problems...or at least make it look like it was doing so. It, of course, did nothing of the kind -- in fact, just the opposite.
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