The UN has
sided with Sistani in his on-going quest to throw the US out of Iraq and plunge the entire country into civil war and the entire region into chaos. And of course, if the US is forced out by international pressure or failure of will, everyone will crow about how the US plan to bring democracy to Iraq failed.
We should stay there until such time as the Iraqis are willing to choose a government to our liking – and if they don’t get it right the first (or second, or third) time around, we should annul it just like we did to Japan and tell them to try again. I’m only being half-sarcastic about this – the success of Iraqi democracy is much too important to be left to the Iraqis. But I have confidence in the Iraqis – they’ll catch on eventually.
UPDATE: Do you think there’s anything behind the fact that the Boston Globe headline for this story was “U.N. team meets top cleric but fails to work out differences over vote” but the NYT headline was “UN Aide Backs Cleric, Not US, on Iraqi Elections”? As in one looks like no one is supporting the US? The more things change…
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