Analysis: Military Makes Gains in Iraq

Washinton post ran an article about the new US strategy in Iraq for the past six months and according to their analysis it seems to be working ... haven't we seen that too often, whenever new rules and tactics are placed by any government they are lauded and praised initially, the long term affects of this policy are yet to be seen.

"It is a phase with fresh promise yet the same old worry: Iraq may be too fractured to make whole.
No matter how well or how long the U.S. military carries out its counterinsurgency mission, it cannot guarantee victory.
Only the Iraqis can. And to do so they probably need many more months of heavy U.S. military involvement. Even then, it is far from certain that they are capable of putting this shattered country together again." from "Military Makes Gains in Iraq - washingtonpost.com"