The "Anbar Awakening" - how "the surge" worked and it's future.
"Removing this support through the Anbar awakening is the surge's greatest success. It has been achieved, however, essentially by bribing the Sunni tribal leadership. What happens when the money dries up—especially if the promised integration of young Sunni militiamen into the Iraqi army does not materialize? (It has not yet.)"
Rather like paying off pirates for peace. And, as the man says, what happens when the bribes stop?
Arf