Looking back at the Sunni Awakening in Iraq | An article by David Rose for Vanity Fair

In his article, Heads in the Sand, Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose offers a recent history of how the Sunni Awakening came to be and why it did not happen sooner.  The self-proclaimed revelation of the article is that:

…New evidence suggests that the Sunnis were offering the same deal as early as 2004—one that was eagerly embraced by commanders on the ground, but rejected out of hand at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

The full article details the actors and events that eventually lead to what has become known as the Sunni Awakening, as well as the opportunities that were lost.