Having ignored Iraq since 2009, the Obama team is now desperately trying to devise a way to prevent its total collapse -- and to roll back the jihadi state newly established on a third of Iraqi territory.
The
only slim hope of doing either requires the ouster of the leader whom
the United States has backed for nearly a decade, Iraq's paranoid prime
minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
-- Trudy Rubin, "To save Iraq, dump al-Maliki" (San Jose Mercury News).
