Is the U.S. already taking sides in Iraq?
The overwhelmingly Shiite Muslim military force at the forefront of U.S. and Iraqi plans to secure one of the nation’s most fractious provinces is accused of arresting hundreds of Sunni men on little or no evidence, threatening to rape a suspect’s wife to coerce a confession, and intimidating its commander’s critics, according to interviews with Iraqi and U.S. officials.
Read the whole piece and then ask yourself what “significant changes” to U.S. Iraq policy promised today by Stephen Hadley could possibly put the genie of sectarian violence back in the bottle.
