Abu Risha Murdered? Marc Lynch

ABU RISHA MURDERED MARC LYNCH (ABU AARDVARK, SEPTEMBER 13): The Sunni strategy as presented by surge advocates has always rested not only on a whole series of dubious claims about Iraqi Sunni politics, but also relies on a whole series of best-case scenarios in which nothing could go wrong. In Iraq, something always goes wrong. It's a major setback for the strategy, particularly at the symbolic level. Even if the just-murdered Abu Risha, the man most closely identified with America's Anbar strategy, was a poor choice to "lead" the strategy, he was in fact elevated to that symbolic position by American propaganda and practice (that meeting with the President, for instance).
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