Arming The Sunnis

I wondered about this too. General Petraeus has said that we're not arming the Sunni tribes in Iraq to go against Al Qaeda. He says we're just "applauding" them when they do a good job. What he does NOT say is whether or not we're giving these tribes money. Which me most certainly are, and money buys guns. I'm not so sure we're not eliminating the middle man and giving the weapons too. Plus there's this:

Moreover, Petraeus and Crocker are both bragging about Anbar Sunnis joining the local police force and presumably we are arming the local police force and given that Shiite militias in Shiite areas find it easy to infiltrate the local police there, it seems like the new, Sunnified Iraqi local police in Sunni areas are just going to be Sunni insurgent groups, but this time with uniforms.

Just like the Iraqi police force is a Shiite militia, only with uniforms.