Maliki versus US
Tuesday October 31, 2006
So, Iraqi PM Maliki is now ordering US troops to take their hands off Sadr City. Well, he may well be an example of Iraqis standing up and taking control of their own country (um, we're supposed to want that, right?), but if this doesn't settle once and for all how reliable Maliki is as a partner for combatting insurgent and death squad violence, I don't know what will. Makes you wonder about those weekend rumors that a US-backed coup is in the offing. Hey, that'd be one way to unite Iraqis...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Hey, that'd be one way to unite Iraqis...
I'm more and more appreciating your slightly twisted sense of humor. Laughing and crying at the same time with that one.>
Is Maliki serious about getting control of the Shiite militias and ending this sectarian violence?
So far, the answer appears to be "no." He's more of an enabler for bad boy imam Moqtada Al-Sadr, the latter who seems to be engaged in a crusade to out-Saddam Saddam in murder and ethnic cleansing.
If all we have done is install a government that's going to engage in eliminating Sunnis in favor of Shiites, then maybe all the liberals were right and qwe should've just let Saddam remain in place.
What should the U.S. do? Get the Hell out and let the two extremists kill each other off. If we have to stay, then let's move up North to Kurdistan and back their independence from this trainwreck called Iraq...>
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