Escalation has failed, only a political settlement can solve this and that time has been squadered. maliki no inclination to compromise-refusing to cretae a true Iraqi army and non sectarian police force-just empty promises. Not acting for Iraq as whole but front man for shiites including notoriuos militias and death squads.
“Alliance in Anbar troubling, just %5 population of Iraq is there and arming our new sunni allies works against building unified Iraq. We should have learned from our lessons in Afganistan in the 80’s, we armed the extremists against the soviets which led to the creation of Al Quida”