Many acknowledge that the Iraqi "awakening", which began in Anbar province, was partially driven by al Qaeda brutality. Another aspect, of course, was AQ’s sometimes absurd, but brutally enforced dictums - such as women not being allowed to buy "male" vegetables such as cucumbers. But the callous and unflinching brutality and the murderous zeal in which it was carried out ostracized the Sunni community in Anbar from the al Qaeda terrorists there and caused them, eventually, to...