Remember when media bludgeoned us hourly with reports on the unwinnable quagmire that was Iraq? Wonder whatever what’s happening over there since the coverage stopped? , elections
Charles Krauthammer was all too happy to fill in the blanks in Friday’s Washington Post.
“Preoccupied as it was poring over Tom Daschle’s tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections,” Krauthammer writes. “There was no Election Day violence. Security was handled by Iraqi forces with little U.S. involvement. A fabulous bazaar of 14,400 candidates representing 400 parties participated, yielding results highly favorable to both Iraq and the United States.”
“Iraq moved away from religious sectarianism toward more secular nationalism. “All the parties that had the words ‘Islamic’ or ‘Arab’ in their names lost,” noted Middle East expert Amir Taheri. “By contrast, all those that had the words ‘Iraq’ or ‘Iraqi’ gained.”
This just goes to show how much we have in common with the Iraqi people. Here in the United States people will apparently vote for anything with the world “Hope” attached.
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