A stranger in your own city travels in the Middle East long war.

It is halfway between Baghdad and Mosul is a city called Ramadhi.

We heard about it much in the Sony Awakening of 2007, well it's back, except one widestism

that we learn in the telling of this story is that I believe when the women want to,

the women of the Sony women want to make certain that you're going to have a bad time,

they say something like, may you have many sheiks in your clan or your tribe?

What does that mean, Haith? Why do they say that?

It's not only the Sony's, but in every tribal society in Iraq,

if a woman wants to curse a woman from another tribe, they say, may Allah increase the,

you know, the tribal elders in your society, because the more shapes, the more tribal elders you have,

and in a tribe, the more infighting you have, and every one of them will try to use outside powers

to increase their, you know, their influence.

And this is exactly what's happened in Ramadhi, which is to the West.

And Baghdad is here, Mosul is there, Ramadhi is to the West.

And, you know, different Sunni politicians, tribal elders, forces to, you know,

some use the power of maliki to fight others, some kind of use the power of the jihadis,

allow themselves, allow themselves the Americans.

And this internal infighting between the Sunnis, I mean, sometimes I call what's been happening in Iraq

on the past 20 years, I mean, until ISIS is the tragedy of the Sunnis.

Because, you know, the Sunnis in Iraq never saw themselves as a monolithic, unified force.

There are people of different cities, a mercantile Mosul, a tribal Ramadhi, rural Diala.

The Americans came and they perceived the Sunnis as a one sect and pushed them into a corner, targeted them with lots of sanctions.

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