Picking the wrong leader in Iraq
If there is anyone to blame for the worsening sectarian violence in Iraq, it should be Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , who appointed Nouri Jawad Al- Maliki as the country’s Prime Minister after Saddam Hussein was toppled a few years back. It comes as a surprise that the Iraqi Parliament has picked someone from Kurdistan Province, if only to make the political landscape in Iraq look neutral to the local population and the world. But things have turned negative because the outcome did not seem compatible with the aspirations of the Iraqi people considering that Maliki is a hardline Shia himself, wherein majority of the Sunnis do not trust him as their prime minister. If we take a look at the political set up in Iraq, it is clear that most of the government officials Maliki appointed to sensitive posts were mostly Shias , a move that was viewed by the Sunnis and the Kurdish as favorable to their political interests. How did Talabani came into the Iraqi political circle? Well, Ta...