[ichabod1]

My take: Our strategy was to win not by flooding the country with US military power, but by training up the Iraqi army and police. This has not worked. Good try, hasn't worked. Now it's time to do it ourselves because it has to be done.

[Syncro]

Three of the 18 Providences have been turned over to the Iraqis to control.

Fourteen of the 18 are relatively peaceful and going forward as well as can be expected.