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Muqtada al-Sadr Gets Promoted To Dictator-In-Waiting?

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It seems as if all Muqtada al-Sadr’s hard work in Iraq may be paying off – the Penetagon seems to be beginning to regard him as a possible useful proxy:

To achieve its vital war aims, in other words, America must abandon its dream of victory and accept the appearance of defeat. What does this mean in practice? Quite simply, the United States must take a cold, analytical look at the forces arrayed against us in Iraq and decide which leader should be allowed the glorious destiny of redeeming his country from foreign occupation. Once the United States has fixed on a credible resistance leader, our goal should be to cede him tactical, positional victories while denying them to his competitors … Success breeds success. Iraqis will quickly rally to any leader associated with our retreat. We should strive to become invisible, while our foe takes on responsibility for the security Iraqis have learned to value more than freedom.

The U.S. Army general battling rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Tuesday he would consider accepting al-Sadr’s top militia deputies and other fighters in a new security force he is forming to patrol the holy Shiite city of Najaf … “If at some point they came forward with some idea about how to lay down their arms and be integrated into the group that cares about the future in a positive way, we could probably work something out,” Dempsey said.

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