The Boston Globe daily, Published in the US wrote: America’s new friends, the Sunni Arab Awakening Councils, despise the Iranian backers of that government; once they rid their areas of Al Qaeda, will want to purge Iraq of Iranian influence.

The article added: The so-called surge of US combat forces deserves only a minor portion of the credit for this turnaround. The primary agents of change have been Iraqis themselves, particularly those Sunni Arab sheikhs, or tribal leaders, in the western area of the country. America’s new friends, the Sunni Arab Awakening Councils that have quickly grown to more than 70,000 members, include former tribal insurgents in the west. They are acting on the most elemental principle of power politics: that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Boston Globe added: The secondary enemy of the Sunnis’ Awakening Councils is the same Shi’ite-dominated government that Washington supports. Furthermore, America’s new Sunni allies also despise the Iranian backers of that government; once they rid their areas of Al Qaeda, the Sunnis will want to purge Iraq of Iranian influence.
Boston Globe concluded: If American policymakers hope to extricate the United States from Iraq any time soon, they must now play a tricky power-balancing game. They need to use the rise of Sunni Arab forces as a card to pressure the Iraqi government to grant more development resources and a greater share of political power to the Sunnis.