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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (31576)6/21/2008 9:09:08 PM
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"The government victories in Basra, Sadr City and Amara were essentially negotiated, so the militias are lying low but undefeated and seething with resentment. Maliki may be raising expectations among Sunnis that he cannot fulfill, and the Sunni Awakening forces in many cases are loyal to their American paymasters, not the Shiite government. Restive Iraqis want to see the government spend money to improve services. Attacks like the bombing that killed 63 people in Baghdad's Huriya neighborhood on Tuesday show that opponents can continue to inflict carnage.

Perhaps most worrisome, more than five years after the American invasion that knocked Saddam Hussein from power but also set off great chaos, Iraq still lacks the formal rules to divide the power and spoils of an oil rich nation among ethnic, religious and tribal groups and unite them under one stable idea of Iraq. The improvements are fragile."
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