Polls Unamerican
via Marc Lynch's Abu Aardvark (with whom we share Philadelphia Chickens as a theme song). The poll was put in the field in August, the 2,000 respondents sampled 18 provinces, and the MoE is 2.5%.
I've been trying to get around to actually reading "Counterinsurgency" FM 3-24 with the same attention I gave the text of AirLand Battle (1986 FM 100-5 version of "Operations"), but with an outcomes clue. I expect this will help, as will having the kids, particularly Jonah, who skips the film back over the exciting bits, watch Tom Cruise cope with the random acts of pacification (Arc Light) committed by the Occupation Forces (of Mars) ... though I expect the film works as a glamorous non-custodial hunk works through absent parent and teen issues with a little CGI help.
98% of Sunni and 98% of Shia respondents answered the question Do you think the seperetion of people along sectarian lines is a good thing or a bad thing for Iraq? in the negative. Joe Biden will probably want to skip over question #32. If you read polls, here's the link (32pp .pdf).
