Yesterday the New York Times released its report on the impact of the surge in Baghdad’s disparate neighborhoods. The conclusions were not encouraging. Essentially, the Times found modest gains in the security of the city, but that much of the reduction in violence could be explained by the homogenization of the city’s districts. Further, the paper found that the “city’s underlying sectarian dynamic” had not been fundamentally changed by the increase in troops. Allahpundit focuses on this quote: