The Best Case for the SurgeMike Rappaport

That I have seen is here.  Alas, it seems way too optimistic to me, but you never know.  One real weakness here is that pressure needs to be placed on Maliki and Shiites to go after Sadr and make a deal with the Sunnis.  I don’t see much pressure.  Here is my approach for how to do it. 

The strange thing about Maliki is figuring out why he is taking the line he has.  Unless he does the above, the US will pull out and there will be a civil war between Shia and Sunni.  And it is not clear that the Shia will win.