How about a pro-American secular Shia.
That's not what the author is proposing though.
I think that, fundamentally, any 'solution' in Iraq that proposes 'choosing' one ethnic or religious bloc to support over the others is certain to fail.
Those who think it is our hands to choose the PM or partition the country are kidding themselves. The task is reconcilliation and pacification. Maliki is working on the former and we are trying to work ourselves out of the second job.