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It took out a tiny area. Ground zero was Ramadi and it spread out to slightly after Falluja.
So if people were to 'bomb them', they'd have to drop quite a few Tsar Bomba's on them. A lot of few, actually.
In 2007, the Bush administration financed a Sunni army — the Awakening — and Galbraith says this is responsible for the success so far in Iraq. Biden would take this to the next step and encourage the Sunnis to form their own region, which would control that army, just as the Kurdistan region controls the Peshmerga, or the Kurdistan army, Galbraith says. A decentralized, loosely federalized partitioned Iraq might eventually be capable of defending its own interests against its larger neighbors of Iran and Turkey, but right now, Galbraith says, that's not happening.
Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.