JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: OUR ENEMY'S ENEMY. Al-Qaeda has increasingly been making some Sunni enemies in Iraq. Does that vindicate the "surge"? Hardly. As Marc Lynch discusses today, the most important recent development in Iraqi Sunni politics has been the spike in tensions between al-Qaeda and major insurgent factions. And this development actually bolsters the case for a U.S. withdrawal. Read the piece here.
--The Editors