our 'enemies' (haters of freedom, insurgents, terrorists and whatever else they have been named over the last 2 years) are actually iraqis being shut out of the political process.
The hopeful title of the NYT lead—"Some Sunnis Hint at Peace Terms in Iraq, U.S. Says,"—hasn't much to do with the article itself. Never in the 1,800-word story is the reader told what the hints at peace are, or who or where they're coming from, or how much of the insurgency they represent. Further muddling the article is that no named goverment sources are quoted on the issue, and the only quote from an anonymous source—"an American official in Baghdad"—doesn't arrive until the end of the article, perhaps because it's so vague: "What I'm seeing is a new willingness of people who used to be [opposed] to join the process." The article, it turns out, is mostly about how difficult it would be to negotiate with the insurgents, since we don't know who they are, and the only people who do are probably untrustworthy.attribution
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