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The day's only overseas report appeared to be big enough news that, if true, it should have been the Story of the Day. In Baghdad, Gen Raymond Odierno told CBS' Lara Logan that the Sunni resistance to US military occupation has finished and the US is no longer fighting a counterinsurgency war. "The deadly Sunni insurgency that has led the fight against US forces from the start is all but over," was Logan's takeaway headline. "This is not the war the general thought he was coming here to fight."
Time will tell whether Odierno was announcing that a sea change has occurred or whether he was merely adopting new terminology. What Odierno specifically told Logan was that mainstream Sunni insurgents--like the Amiriyah Freedom Fighters of Baghdad--have "decided they want to try to reconcile with this government;" the primary guerrilla forces are now the Shiite militias like the Mahdi Army; the remnants of Sunni guerrillas still active have joined forces controled by al-Qaeda. Logan explained that the Shiite militias "are not fighting to regain lost power like the Sunnis: their fight is for power and influence in the future Iraq." And Odierno thinks that money, weapons and training for the militias originate in Iran.
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