Recently Max Boot, one of the last neocon holdouts, wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times warning against ending the surge. He noted that the Sunnis are cooperating with the United States, but warned that such cooperation would end if the United States starting pulling out. "That cooperation is unlikely to last if the Sunnis perceive that most Americans are headed for the exits."

Today's New York Times says exactly the opposite. The Times notes:

Many Sunnis, for their part, are less inclined to see the soldiers as occupiers now that it is clear that American troop reductions are all but inevitable, and they are more concerned with strengthening their ability to fend off threats from Sunni jihadists and Shiite militias.

In other words, the Sunnis are tolerating our presence in Anbar precisely because they know we are leaving.