Well done elections so far in Iraq
And interesting comments from Iraqis interviewed after voting. "This is for us, it does not mean we want the Americans to stay." Hopefully we'll make all happy soon.
posted by Anonymous at 6:35 PM
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i think the voting is great, but i'm holding off on the champagne celebrations. shiite and kurdish parties still hold most of the cards, sunnis remain a scorned and despised minority and the army and security services are overwhelmingly shiite and kurd. it reminds me of a scenario in which we broke yugoslavia and put croats in charge of serbs...not good.
i do believe our presence makes things worse. the sunnis see us as an occupier or an agent of shiia domination, since we've concentrated most of our search-and-destroy in the sunni areas, and trained up a mostly shiite and kurdish army. and then we are a jihadi magnet, just because of who we are. what i would like to see is something of what james fallows proposes, i.e. withdraw to the periphery, convene a regional conference comprised of all patriotic forces in iraq and all the neighbors, and ask them to hash out a postwar agreement of some sort. i don't even see the parliament as particularly legit since we set it up. the iraqis need to take ownership of this postwar somehow, whether together or separated. i don't even want to think about separated...
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