Diplomats & Traitors

"As Iraq transitions to a country on the mend and the ebbing violence takes it off the US front pages, I was reflecting on Iraq's next steps towards whatever end state it will have.

For some reason, I remembered a "debate" I had with the Queen of Hard Left Ideologues (whose name I dare not speak, lest I invoke her) at the end of 2006 on 24 Steps to Liberty's blog. Follow it here, I think, if you dare. The gist of her argument was that Maliki, who was/is Bushitler's hapless puppet of course, would be overthrown within days if he did not push through the "Oil Law" that would cede Iraq's black gold to evil US neocons through the use of "Production Sharing Agreements".

My counter argument, if I remember correctly because I'm not going to read it again, was that no such thing would happen. She was quite certain her prediction would come true. I was less certain mine would. After all, PM Maliki's government was under attack from nearly every side at the time, with sticks, stones, AND words. There certainly was a very real chance we'd see them swept away in a more traditional transition of power that Iraq has been used to, but I thought the US would not be behind it if it happened that way. Well, it didn't and Maliki and his government have survived as of this writing."
IBC