Sunday, February 14, 2010

Truest statement of the week

To resolve a dispute with the Tikrit provincial council this week, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq did what any good autocrat would do: He sent in the army. The problem is, Mr. Maliki isn't supposed to be an autocrat. And the United States didn't train Iraq's Army so it could be used for political coercion. This is just the most recent example of thuggery by Mr. Maliki, who is determined to do anything he can to win re-election next month.

-- "Mr. Maliki's Dangerous Ambition," New York Times editorial, February 13th.
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