« "Such fatuous King Canute pronouncements ..." | Main | Whither Iraq Policy? »

This idea seems to be gaining momentum among Iraqi politicians, as I'm seeing it raised more and more often recently:

Here's the background. Iraqi lawmakers have told reporters that they are ready to oust Maliki over his utter failure to deal with Iraq's continuing security crisis. Under Iraqi law, they could do so with a majority vote in parliament. Indeed, Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish and secular MPs have been gradually shaping a parliamentary majority that specifically excludes followers of Al Sadr. This new emerging majority bloc would be headed by the Shiite leader Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, who met with President Bush in Washington earlier this month. Hakim is well known to be close to Iran, but he doesn't want to be prime minister, and it is doubtful that anyone else wants him to be PM, either. Instead, Hakim backs Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Everyone celebrated when the purple fingers arrived in Iraq. Remember the joy, the optimism, the sudden swing in conventional wisdom, the doubts among war critics? Well, that event was the icing, the plodding laborious process of political moderates banding together against extremists is the cake. This unheralded dynamic is a primary reason why, as Rudy Rummel has exhaustively demonstrated, liberal democracy is the least worst form of government.

(excerpted link via Glenn)

Posted by Dave Price at December 15, 2006 10:05 PM | TrackBack (2)

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.indcjournal.com/cgi-bin/mt/dafrules/tapaz.cgi/2890

Comments