"… U.S. and Iraqi officials have claimed recent success in the effort to isolate al-Qaida, particularly in the western Anbar province, where many Sunni tribes have banded together to fight the terror network.
A growing number of Sunni tribes have reportedly been turning against al-Qaida elsewhere as well, repelled by the terror network’s sheer brutality and austere religious extremism.
The extremists also are competing with nationalist groups for influence and control over diminishing territory in the face of U.S. assaults, a situation exacerbated by the influx of Sunni fighters to areas outside the capital as they flee a nearly four-month-old security crackdown. "I think this is happening because of al-Qaida’s brutality," said Ehsan Ahrari, professor and specialist in counterterrorism at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. "They have been hurting the Sunni population in Iraq and that is coming back to hurt al-Qaida."
The event itself is significant because it looks like the U.S. is making some breakthrough in terms of establishing consensus with the Sunni population," he said. "Of course we have to hold our breath and see, but this is important no doubt...."
As Imp is pointing out here, there is method at play wherein ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ news organs are termed as such so as to trap people in a paradigm which often sees them arguing as to which side is more ‘objective’.
As I pointed out before, all World Banks are privately owned if you follow the trail far enough back; which means that these same elites, the 1% who own 99% of the wealth in the world are the ones who are funding both the ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ news organs. This is important because these elites are actually using both sides – playing one off the other – to get what they desire. Most high level politicians are aware of this themselves, and accept this place because of ego-based incentives which lure them into accepting a place amongst ‘the elite’ instead of serving the people they at one time swore to do.
Liberal and Conservative news organs will disagree and present opposing biases to confuse and alienate people from relevant issues. These issues of relevency are often expoused by news outlets untied to some corporation, and thus off of the ‘power grid’ established by these elites who own all money in the world. It is not surprising that regardless of the issue, the only times the Conservative and Liberal Corporations are in agreement is to discredit those would would call into question the now established authority of the power grid.
There is a sense of loyalty and pride which develops as people grow up clinging to concepts such as ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’. The more they are unable to develop an original ‘self’ or perspective, the more they are likely to simply side with the person dictating things on TV without comparing it to the other news being presented by what would now be viewed as a ‘source without any credit or professionalism’. This gets complicated, but essentially some people garnish a sense of ‘truth’ not by examining the facts, but examining how the facts from a certain sources fit into a worldview they themselves admit they would not like changed or put into evolve in any way.
In this way the ego of the individual is subverted so that it takes pride in remaining ignorant; however to the person in question they themselves do not see their exposure as ignorant so long as they continue to watch and view events. To them, so long as they are absording -some- sort of news they are a functional member of society, when in fact this is functionally equivalent to a robot downloading a new set of instructions.
The US has nothing to do with this and as soon as these Sunni tribes have dealt with Al Queda they will turn their weapons back on the infidel invader.