Might as well, because they’ve tried everything else. ISIS advances unhindered
Why should Maliki trust Obama?
I worked on a PSD team for the State Dept in Iraq from ‘07-’12. Protected State Dept election monitors in ‘09. Maliki lost to Alawi, who everybody could get along with. Alawi is kind of secular, doesn’t play the radical islam thing, ain’t no fan of the Iranians and just wants to get his country back to some level of normalcy.
Maliki refused to vacate the office and vowed a fight if they tried to force him out. They settled on giving Alawi some type of position, but he no one could touch Maliki. When he was in exile, from Sadam, he lived in Iran. He is their bitch. They’ve been propping him up since day one and they aren’t going to let him go anywhere.
This part of the world cannot be democratized. The people are tribal and that’s how they have always run things. We’re foolish to believe otherwise. And the parts of Iraq lost to ISIS are gone forever. No Iraqi army will ever take them back. This civil war is almost over. Can ISIS take Baghdad? Probably not right now. But in time, as America withdraws, they can. And this part of the world has nothing but time on their hands. We want things wrapped up right now. They will wait for as long as it takes.
Maybe manipulating the formation of the next government, now that the election results are in, was the driver to set some of these big pieces in motion.
Before Maliki gets selected as Prime Minister for another term and drives the country even further the way he has been going, other players may have decided to make a big push to change direction. One possibility.
I would suggest that any attempted putsch to get rid of Maliki include enticing golden parachutes for him, like a palace in Dubai and a bank vaults in Switzerland and Tehran.
A question we should perhaps have asked before now, no?
Is Maliki Arabic for Diem?
CC
If one changes the name to Obama then he should be asked to resign by foreign leaders as he rejects working with Republicans and uses his pen and phone to legislate
Anything is possible.
But my ignorant opinion is that his leaving the scene will be the result of bullets fired by one sect or the other.
That's pretty much the extent of the savage muslim animal nature.