[Hoodat]

We didn’t stick with Maliki. We abanadoned Maliki which is why he took matters into his own hands.

[Steven Tyler]

Same story with the current leader of Afghanistan (Karshi???)

[hcmama]

That's the Dick Cheney narrative. It is definitely contradicted here. The saddest paragraph by far:

"In short, Maliki’s one-man, one-Dawa-party Iraq looks a lot like Hussein’s one-man, one-Baath Party Iraq. But at least Hussein helped contain a strategic American enemy: Iran. And Washington didn’t spend $1 trillion propping him up. There is not much “democracy” left if one man and one party with close links to Iran control the judiciary, police, army, intelligence services, oil revenue, treasury and the central bank. Under these circumstances, renewed ethno-sectarian civil war in Iraq was not a possibility. It was a certainty."