"The Americans have dampened Anbar but they are accepting that the Iraqi government cannot do it - and the US military is now essentially circumventing the Iraqi government," says Toby Dodge, an Iraq expert at Queen Mary College in London. "The policy is successful in the short term but it will directly damage state-building in the long term."
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