Iraq has a President

The process of building a government plods on: Kurdish politician Jalal Talibani will be named President tomorrow at a meeting of Parliament. I await the prattling of the Negative Nabobs and wonder what reasons they'll invent to convince us that Iraq is a(n) puppet/illegitimate government/promising experiment in democracy doomed to civil-war, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

My quick observations:

-A Kurdish President
-Speaker of the Parliament is Sunni
-Shi'a control of the Parliament with a majority of seats


As a practical matter, the Shi'a do and will exercise the majority of political power by virtue of controlling the Parliament, that is true. Early indications are, however, that they are wise to the fact that they need to take pains to avoid political acts of revenge against the Sunni and/or oppression of the Kurds. And that is a good thing!

Natter on Nabobs, natter on!