On a day when a very tall lunatic with a JDAM target on his back, podcasting from his spider-hole, offered a truce to America and regurgitated some Democratic National Committee talking points, Omar from Iraq the Model provides a pertinent update on the election results in Iraq. By all means read it all, but his last few lines are a very fine summation of what he sees as the state of affairs:

The Shia politicians, although they are the biggest winners in the elections are still behaving like victims and they worry about whether this or that Sunni candidate was part of the Ba’ath party. And the same applies to the Sunni who are afraid of Shia domination despite the fact that their (the Sunni) parties will control nearly 30% of the parliament and there’s no chance they can be marginalized again.
Not only that, both sides say they’re being conspired upon by the others. This lack of trust will keep being a problem for Iraq … I’m not expecting politicians to trust each other but I hope they mature to trust democracy.

Iraqis-whether politicians or ordinary citizens-are yet to fully understand democracy but to be fair, one should not put all the blame on them; democracy takes time … democracy is a process, not an event.

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