Khaleej Times2010-02-08
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has played a positive and crucial role in stabilising the war-ravaged Iraq. Maliki has earned himself admiration and praise of Iraqi people as well as the larger Arab world with his no-nonsense approach, often even confronting the Americans. The Iraqi leader risks undermining all that good work by pandering to the Shia ruling alliance at the expense of the country's Sunnis. If the Maliki government was totally wrong and...