It doesn't pay to rely on The Washington Times for an understanding of the Middle East, it seems. Adolf did:

The news from Iraq cannot get any worse for the Democrats and the dopey NZ Left. The Sunni Arabs of Iraq have more brains than the pseudo intellectuals who infest our universities and news outlets.

Sunni Arabs have concluded they should deal with the Americans and extend the 'negotiated truce' which allowed the election to proceed. How interesting that the truce was negotiated by the Yanks. That was not widely known. By this means they have essentially broken the 'insurgency' and isolated the imported fanatics. Even more interesting to note the Sunni's main fear is Iran, not the Americans.

I wish I had a dollar for every time a winger declared the insurgency broken. That probably makes me a Zarqawi supporter again. Yawn.

While Rumsfeld and Bush seem, through the bitter experience of two wasted years and at the cost of untold lives and treasure, to be abandoning simplistic strategies and statements, their lowly camp followers haven't got the message yet. For them it's still either black or white. Adolf again:

It just gets better by the day. That is, if you don't read the New York Times, The Guardian and The Independent and don't watch CBS or the BBC.

Well, it would wouldn't it?