It is back to a wounded past in Fallujah, the city ravaged by an American offensive in 2004, one of the bloodiest episodes in the US occupation of Iraq. The Sunni Muslim town fell into the grip of jihadis earlier this week and has since been threatened with a large-scale assault by the Shia Muslim-led government in Baghdad. Yet today, just as much as a decade ago, Fallujah embodies a broader political problem of Sunni disenfranchisement that is unlikely to be resolved by tanks and artillery. True, Fallujah takes pride in its reputation as a rebellious town, its population still holding on to memories of the US offensive, which was launched after the murder of American contractors whose bodies were viciously left hanging on a bridge. Even as its people rebuilt the schools and hospitals, a few buildings were deliberately left in ruins to remind them of the assault, […]