Gulf News Lost in the shuffle in recent weeks, between Americans watching their economy take a nosedive and watching the debates in one of the most pivotal presidential elections in memory, was the news from Iraq - a country that, contrary to repeated statements by government officials in Washington, has neither turned the corner nor is it on its way any time real soon to overcoming its myriad sectarian, social and political problems. Never mind that Shiite religious parties, whose members, alas, consider themselves Shiites first and Iraqis second, control the country's central government, and that the army is a Shiite-dominated institution built around the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). And never mind that the Shiite-Kurdish alliance has long since fractured, as demonstrated by the military confrontations that took...
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