Iraq: Getting Played, And Paid Iraq: Getting Played, And Paid

StrategyPage: Iraq: Getting Played, And Paid points to some good and some bad right now in Iraq. The police are still corrupt. They are likely to be so for generations to come. So, the government is only rotating them into Baghdad for 90 day tours, trying to minimize this. The Surge is continuing to isolate the Sunni terrorists. And one of the more troubling discoveries is that the Iranians do seem to have been arming and funding some of the less anti-Shiite Sunni terrorists - mostly it appears just to screw things up.