Iraq

Saw this article in today's Independent:

Coalition uses 1918 British report on tribal system

HA! Why am I not surprised ?!?



Now that Ayatollah Sistani is piling on the pressure and things seem to be on the verge of going bust, the US is trying to get the UN to jump in and organise elections.



I sincerely hope that the UN will not get involved here.

Things will end badly no matter who ends up holding the can and as far as I am concerned, the UN has not not exactly played an exemplary and independent role in Iraq in the past, what with enabling those killer sanctions.



I suspect in the end the lure/push of the US will be too strong to resist, as usual, and the UN will go in and try to salvage what they can.



From where I'm sitting, they will be lucky if the country does not end up as a repressive theocracy or in an all-out civil war, resulting in the north being invaded and occupied by Turkey. The latter of course, a 'humanitarian' effort, in the interest of bringing stability to the region.