This is fascinating. While I completely 100% support the war effort, it sounds like we’re trying to build a little America from existing disparate pieces by the seat of our pants. I am so glad that we have bright commanders at the field and battalion level able to improvise, but am at a loss as to how they are going to fit these little puzzle-piece fiefdoms into a broader federalist system.
I submit that the basics of Western Civilisation did exactly that; Britain, Germany, France, those regions and Royal Grants in the New World that became the US States -- all devolved from fiefdoms of one type or another. Will it happen in a MSM minute? We still have myriad support groups in most countries we were once enemies with -- Japan, Germany, Korea, Italy, yet now consider them allies. It takes years and commitment from both sides -- I think it is there in Iraq as long as we can continue to nurture and guide it along their lines.