Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Stephan: As this situation makes abundantly clear, you can spend a trillion dollars, and hundred of thousands of lives, and still one country can not 'give' another nation a functioning government. Stable democratic governments have to earned by the people who will be governed. There is no other way. This entire adventure has been geopolitically unsound from the beginning.
Efforts to create a new Iraqi government suffered a fresh setback on Monday when the opposition alliance that gained most seats in the election formally ended talks with allies of Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister.
Iraqiya, led by Iyad Allawi, a former prime minister, said the decision was made after Mr Maliki described the alliance as ‘Sunni
