Iraq: The Other Surge.

In this article the author discusses the rise in Iraqi nationalism that occurred in 2007, even as the Iraq War continued. Tracing the increase in national feeling to a victory by the Iraqi national soccer team, the author also ascribes the phenomenon to opposition to a U.S. plan to partition the country, to outrage at the killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians by a mercenary organization hired by the United States and resistance to attempts to privatize the national oil industry.