Reply #1: The Anbar model...

[Postman]

There is no Anbar Model except in Anbar.

The Anbar model was US forces arming Sunni insurgents to rid the province of the small number of Al Qaeda/foreign fighters....

Since the small number of Al Qeada in Iraq is a fact and they are pretty much localized in Anbar, the Anbar model can't be replicated elsewhere because the fighting in other provinces is a mix of everything BUT Al Qaeda...Iraqi Nationalists, Iraqi patriots, Sunni on Shia, Shia on Sunni, neighborhood on neighborhood, criminal elements, Baathists.....

Because Bush and the neo-cons went into Iraq with such a light force unable to keep order in society and with the focus on making Iraq a capitalists' utopia (read Naomi Klein's "Baghdad Year Zero"), the entire region has broken down ....there is no Anbar Model to implement.