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August 26, 2005
A Constitutional Convention's Unconventional Intervention
Iraq watch: federalism issues have produced such an impasse that Bush himself picks up the telephone and suggests Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim partake of a little consensus-building.
Why are we here? The bogus colonial boundary-lines of modern-day Iraq. What do they contain? Three distinct groups with little in common and a tarnished and exhausted national identity.
Who can help Iraq toward a functional nationalism? The answer might surprise. Moqtada al-Sadr, he of the once-infamous Mahdi Army, is the only Shi'ite of any real power who supports unitary nationalism. Is the United States willing to reach out again to a man they once clobbered, a young firebrand willing to segue insurgency into politics? As time ticks down, it will also tell.
Posted by James G. Poulos at August 26, 2005 09:19 AM
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