Word: sectarianism
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...Kurds' most important achievement has been to keep their region free of Iraq's insurgency and sectarian warfare, thanks to their army of 70,000 peshmerga soldiers. Not a single American soldier has been killed in Kurdistan since the start of the war in Iraq, and there hasn't been a major terrorist attack in Arbil since June...
Kirkuk, with its mixed population of Kurds, Arabs and Turkomans, has long had the potential to be a sectarian powder keg. Under Saddam's Baathist regime, the Iraqi government forced out a large number of the city's majority Kurdish population and resettled the city with Arabs from the south. Now ethnic tensions are erupting as Kurds demand the return of Kirkuk to their control. The day I visited in March, a series of two car bombs and three roadside bombs killed 18 people. On April 1, at least 15 people, including eight schoolchildren, died in a suicide truck bombing...
...Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Roman Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick--who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy--explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable: Good prospects, good work, good pay. "Everyone seems to have us pigeonholed as sectarian, not police but soldiers," says Fitzpatrick, 27. "That's not the way it is anymore...
Like Belfast, the PSNI has managed to shed its sectarian colors only in stages. For decades the Royal Ulster Constabulary, as the PSNI was known until 2001, was seen as pro-unionist. A police report in January revealed that officers colluded with Protestant paramilitaries throughout the 1990s, ignoring murders carried out by police informers. But today the PSNI reflects the region's broad move toward reconciliation, which took another step forward on March 26, when leaders of the long-feuding Democratic Unionist Party and the nationalist Sinn Fein Party agreed to form a power-sharing government...
...increasingly hopeless. Young people are sent to Iraq by the planeload, and return jaded and disillusioned with the difference our presence is making there. Despite Senator John McCain’s assertions to the contrary, Baghdad outside the Green Zone remains dangerous, the Iraqi government remains weak, and the sectarian violence remains endless. And Americans grow ever more restless. America’s Iraq policy is drowning in quicksand, yet our president insists that we can still swim out. Just a few more strokes, he says; all that’s required is one more “surge?...