When dumb men fight, smart men can’t talk ..

The document continued with eight “urgent immediate demands.” These were: the establishment of a new Iraqi Army; the disbanding of sectarian militias; the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the cities; the release of political prisoners; an end to interference in Iraqi affairs by neighboring countries; pressure on the Kurds to “cease the rhetoric of separation from Iraq”; a promise that the U.S. would stop describing insurgents as “terrorists”; and, finally, a pledge to “continue political dialogue between Iraqis and Americans.”

(Heads in the Sand, Vanity Fair, 05/12/09)

Or the real story of the “Sunni Awakening”.