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* Fallujah turns out to have been an experiment that failed. Pulled back in April, possibly just days from taking the city from insurgents, Marines have had to watch the city provide a base for terrorists who have created a steady diet of carnage in Iraq. The Fallujah Brigade, an improvised band of former Baathists who were supposed to have policed the city, has melted away or joined the anti-U.S. forces. Other Sunni towns have followed the Fallujah model, slipping from the control of the Iraqi government and American troops. This situation is intolerable. The U.S. is making the political calculation that it should not take Fallujah until there are enough Iraqi forces to participate in the assault and hold the city once it is subdued. This is an understandable tactical choice, but it has a high cost. Every day the insurgency stays strong, the standing of Prime Minister Allawi's ...