http://warincontext.org/2009/08/12/shiites-in-iraq-show-restraint-as-sunnis-keep-attacking/ ... with attention to the unseen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://warincontext.org/2009/08/12/shiites-in-iraq-show-restraint-as-sunnis-keep-attacking/comment-page-1/#comment-5012 DE Tedoru Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:18:52 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1857#comment-5012 The Sadr/Maliki Shites are in power now and the Sunnis are fragmenting in a spectrum from suicide terror to reconciliation. Shi'a have been congealing around Sadr's "One-Iraq" nationalism (moderate Sunnis included), forcing Maliki to make a deal with him now that Sadr made his peace with Iran. ISCI-- Bush's favorite Iraqi Shia-- will always be remembered as Iran's puppet during Iran-Iraq War. ISCI plan of fragmented Iraq, like that of the Kurds, is fading. We should only be negotiating our exodus, given the limits in our ability to fulfill any responsibility for the outcome of Iraqization. We killed our influence over Shias by in 2004 adopting the neocon "World War IV" plan of killing Muslims instead of Bush's 2002 deal with Iran for ISCI rule. We need damage control diplomacy, supporting instead of opposing Sadr-type Iraq. We drowned our power in hubris and must now commit to Obama-type humility diplomacy. The Sadr/Maliki Shites are in power now and the Sunnis are fragmenting in a spectrum from suicide terror to reconciliation. Shi’a have been congealing around Sadr’s “One-Iraq” nationalism (moderate Sunnis included), forcing Maliki to make a deal with him now that Sadr made his peace with Iran. ISCI– Bush’s favorite Iraqi Shia– will always be remembered as Iran’s puppet during Iran-Iraq War. ISCI plan of fragmented Iraq, like that of the Kurds, is fading. We should only be negotiating our exodus, given the limits in our ability to fulfill any responsibility for the outcome of Iraqization. We killed our influence over Shias by in 2004 adopting the neocon “World War IV” plan of killing Muslims instead of Bush’s 2002 deal with Iran for ISCI rule. We need damage control diplomacy, supporting instead of opposing Sadr-type Iraq. We drowned our power in hubris and must now commit to Obama-type humility diplomacy.

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