What's to become of Iraq?

Hannah Allam was the Baghdad Bureau Chief for McClatchy from 2003 to 2006.  She has visited Baghdad off an on since she left and has had a good grasp of the situation.  In writing about her most recent visit there, she is not sanguine about Iraq's future.  She sees the country as "an unstable, deeply sectarian state that's verging on authoritarianism under the veneer of a U.S.-friendly Muslim democracy".

Allam thinks that our withdrawal has enabled Maliki to consolidate power at the cost of freedom for Kurds and Sunnis.   Further, she sees the new U.S. ambassador as a big booster of Maliki; it is highly unlikely that the ambassador will want or be able to rein in Maliki.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/05/144332/iraq-unstable-sectarian-with-signs.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/05/144332/iraq-unstable-sectarian-with-signs.html#storylink=cpy