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Iraqi security better; governance falling short
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| Last Edited | kal Jul 12, 2008 01:44pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Saturday, July 12, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the rural outskirts of Baghdad, where the war seems distant in Iraq's new period of relative calm, a prominent Sunni tribal chief makes no bones about what is lacking in the drive to turn security improvements into lasting economic and political change.
"Up to now we have seen nothing from the government," Sheik Ayad Abdul-Jabar al-Jabouri, wearing traditional headdress and robe, said with more than a hint of disdain for the Shiite-dominated leadership in the capital.
The central government has made limited strides in recent months. But its ability to show ordinary Iraqis — regardless of sect or ethnicity — that it can make political accommodations and act in their common behalf is in doubt. Creating that opportunity for normalcy was the main strategic aim behind the additional U.S. forces that President Bush sent to Iraq in 2007 as violence was peaking.
The last of the five Army brigades as part of that increase is departing Iraq this month. Most indications are that the momentum the troops created toward sustainable security is growing, though not yet without risk of faltering.
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