Army veteran and freelance Iraq embed Michael Yon emails Op-For with this surprising conclusion:
"At this point I would say we are probably actually losing the war, but I really think this can be turned around. Petraeus is just the man who can do it. He’s brilliant and is ready to slam those militias. We need to kill Sadr. We will lose a lot of people taking on the militias, but we should either take them on or pack up and go home. I vote for killing them."
Yon emailed me this on Christmas Day: "I hope we finally kill al Sadr," but asked me not to post it. Now that he’s lifted the embargo, so to speak, I no longer feel constrained. And certainly agree.
Yon’s latest dispatch from Mosul is, as always, worth a read.
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