Sunni tribes in Iraq can be fickle; after years of disenfranchisement under former Prime Minister Maliki, they seem very unlikely to side with the increasingly sectarian and Shiite Iraqi Security Forces against ISIS.
Cruz highlights the challenges of Sunni tribes aligning with Iraqi forces due to past grievances.
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