Echoing Amb. Crocker’s “bottom-up” picture, Gen. Petraeus told presidential hopeful Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) that what gives him reason to believe reconciliation is on the way is that reconciliation efforts on the ground are outpacing the “big law” in Baghdad. There may be no amnesty law for ex-insurgents, for instance, but amnesty is the right word for “former insurgents in Abu Ghraib next to a Sunni-Shiite fault line being allowed to attend a police academy.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179929