You may think that with all that happened in Iraq over the last six weeks, US has really lost all credibility in Iraq. While things have gone really bad, finally Bush Administration has started to grasp the right mechanism for dealing with Iraq and is actually gaining ground in every aspect.

It started with UN’s oil for food program. UN officials including Kofi Annan were involved in questionable dealings with Saddam. Bush Administration was very smart to keep it as a solid card in hand and negotiate UN’s favorable involvement in Iraq. In Falujah, after a solid hick up, US finally made Saddam’s ex-general, a Sunni, commander in charge of an Iraqi unit that will keep peace as well as law and order in the town. It is a marvelous move. In the South, Al-Sadr is slowly isolated. Though this one is still on, the US military have managed to isolate the matter to a controllable stage. 

The final test of Bush Administration’s Iraq credibility came a few days back. For a long time Ahmed Chalabi, the president of anti-Sadam pro-Iranian Shite Iraqi National Congress leader was misleading US. As a matter of fact he was playing a fantastic game with US, Iran and Baath party. While US knew, he was US’s person of choice, he was passing sensitive US military operations to Iran and the Baath Party. King Abdulah of Jordan last week informed US of the same. A great power is defined as the one that quickly learn from its own mistakes, can turn around in a sharp turn, locate the real enemy and strike hard at it. The Iraqi authorities in collaboration with UN raided Chalabi’s office and confiscated computers and documents. While some of Chalabi’s people are up in arms, fact of the matter is, US has finally started winning the real war in Iraq.

Even in Afganistan, US is actually doing better. The local commanders of US army and marine units finally have realized where the real enemy is hiding and managing their operations from. Pakistan’s foreign minister Kasuri’s statement in CNN sounds like Pakistan somehow got caught red-handed in aiding Talibans and Al-Queda. While it took some time for Bush Administration to understand and play the right game, finally they got it right.