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...mine tried to register his newborn daughter as Juliette Farah, and was told this was "impossible." After a frustrating back and forth during which only the word "impossible" was repeated, he finally told the clerk that "Juliette was Imam Reza's mother." This mocking invocation of a Shi`ite religious figure was not appreciated, and my friend was asked to leave the building (his daughter ended up simply as "Farah...
...insurgency is deeply rooted - the latest Pentagon polling reportedly finds that three-quarters of the Sunni population back the insurgents. That's why the U.S. has pressed Maliki to offer amnesty to insurgents, to cede more political authority to Sunnis and, most urgently, to rein in the Shi'ite militias that terrorize Sunni communities in retaliation for insurgent atrocities. Four months into his term, Maliki has done little to implement that program...
...Maliki governs at the head of a coalition of Shi'ite religious parties friendly with Iran, deeply mistrustful of U.S. intentions and with scant interest in following Washington's advice on accommodating the Sunnis, whom they see as the backbone of the old regime under which the Shi'ites suffered. Those parties also happen to command the very Shi'ite militias that the U.S. wants disbanded. The assessment that Maliki is unlikely to do what the U.S. asks of him is probably correct. But there's little reason to expect that any other elected or electable leader in the current...
...Iraq's security forces are still largely dependent on U.S. supervision, logistical and air support, and direct intervention when the going gets tough. A strongman regime in Iraq whose authority depended on U.S. military backing would be unlikely to either placate or subdue the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias...
...primacy to become the dominant foreign power in Iraq, threaten Israel and make it harder for Washington to exert its will in the region. And it could provoke Sunni countries in the region, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to start nuclear programs of their own to contain rising Shi'ite power...