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I find it interesting that American Enterprise Institute fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote that Iraq's Sunni population was being sufficiently intimidated by Shiite paramilitary forces on the same day (April 3) that a truck bomb struck the al-Shroofi mosque, killing at least ten Shiites inside. All the indications that Sunni resistance to Shiite death squad activity has been steadily ramping up since February 22 seems to have been missed by Gerecht and it's a sad irony that the Sunni resistance has (literally) exploded since he wrote his essay. If Gerecht actually believes that a final display of "shock and awe" would put an end to the Iraqi resistance then he clearly lives in a neocon dream world, in which facts that don't support the home ideology have no place.
