Huge victory for what? They still get left with a sectarian split when our troops leave. It could be in ten minutes or tens years but they will have to work this out themselves.

And, BTW Stryker(original post), there are those of us who are very well informed of what is going on over there. Us 'people on the left' (I am actually a moderate) do very much give sh*t about our troops and seeing them alive and well. Does it make you feel better when people post to talk to you about this, is that what you are looking for? What I just posted above is on the macro level and regardless of what happens with anyone's militia (micro level), they are going to have a severe sectarian problem in the future...count on it. I very well know our troops are working thier butts off to try and do the right thing (I was in the Army for 6 years, remember?) but that does not solve a problem that is superimposed on the big political picture...which has been there for hundreds of years.