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Iraq’s Stakeholder Democracy

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Obviously someone in the US Army in Iraq has an MBA, as I predicted earlier they are trying to entice al-Sadr into becoming a “stakeholder”…

In their effort to achieve as smooth a handover as possible to Iraqis at the end of June, the American authorities are letting their generals make deals with the rebels to get the show back on the road. In Fallujah, the hottest cauldron of Sunni hostility, the marines have lifted their siege, leaving the insurgents to run the town’s security; they have even staged a joint patrol. In Shia towns, including the holiest, Najaf, General Martin Dempsey has offered to turn Mr Sadr’s lieutenants into stakeholders in seven battalions being set up within a new Iraqi army and to let Mr Sadr’s foot-soldiers join it as recruits. The Americans would withdraw to outside the cities.

Earlier here.

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