Al-Maliki will fall

-Michael S. Rozeff

The attack by al-Maliki on al-Sadr is very important. He attacked without knowledge of the U.S. Al-Sadr is not defeated and cannot be if he plays his 4th generation cards right, and he is. For he is withdrawing where under attack, but not surrendering, and he did not order a full-scale counterattack. Combine that with his months-old cease-fire and he retains the moral high ground. Al-Maliki becomes the aggressor. Any sustained efforts at bombing the slums and civilian districts where Sadr has his followers only weakens the bombers, the U.S. and Brits if they are still around, and Maliki who instigated this. Sadr is a de-centralist (at present), and thus the enemy of the Iraq centralizers.

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