A Comment About
Baghdad Report: Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Oportunity
August 22, 2007 - 9:16 am
Brian H
2007-08-22 15:54:55
“Things are seldom what they seem … ”
Unity is overrated. This government is not going to override Sunni and Kurd interests, and it’s not a bad thing that some “irreconcilables” are on the sidelines.
The “slate” system has to go. That’s the real advance that’s needed. Consider: in a normal parliament, individual seats are contested, and voters pick which members of each party get in. In this one, they vote only for the “leaders”, who then hand-pick the members of parliament. Bad idea.
