We are moving in Sadr City:
The pre-dawn raids appeared to highlight a strategy of pinpoint strikes in Sadr City rather than the flood of soldiers sent into some Sunni districts.
At least 16 people were arrested after U.S.-Iraqi commandos — using concussion grenades — stormed six homes, police said.
The U.S. military said the raids targeted "the leadership of several rogue" Mahdi Army cells that "direct and perpetrate sectarian murder" — an apparent reference to Shiite gangs accused of carrying out execution-style slayings and torture on Sunni rivals.
For most Sunnis to feel safe enough to essentially surrender to the new government, we must defang Sadr's death squads that target Sunni Arabs and force them to support Sunni jihadis and Baathists in a (futile) effort to protect themselves.
The other half of the problem is reducing Sunni Arab attacks that provide the anger that supports Shia death squads.
Ok, add a "third half" that stops Iran, Syria, and wealthy Sunni Arabs from supporting the killing of Iraqi Shias.
Remember, the majority of the "sectarian" killings are being carried out by organized jihadis or Shia thugs. Stop them and ordinary people won't be roaming the streets killing each other.
We understand that we are in a new phase of the war and have a strategy to win this phase.
