Republican Firm Lobbies to Undermine Al-Maliki
One gets the impression more and more that Republicans – and thus the White House – want to replace al-Maliki. Instead of just criticizing al-Maliki, a lobbying firm owned by Republicans is now calling for al-Maliki’s resignation and wants him to be replaced by Iyad Allawi.
Meanwhile, Bobby Ghosh explains at TIME that there are few good alternatives after Nouri al-Maliki. About Allawi Ghosh writes: “During his brief tenure, he showed little capacity for administration and no political vision beyond his own survival. His government was riddled with corruption and ineptitude, and it was during Allawi’s reign that militias began to infiltrate Iraqi security forces.”
As far as I can remember, Allawi was quite incompetent. Having him replace al-Maliki will not accomplish anything.
In the short term, the only possible solution to the problem is – what some officials already suggest – a military coup. The problem with that is – besides the obvious moral problems – that a dictator might be a friend for a couple of years, but in the end, dictators turn against everybody.
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6 Responses to “Republican Firm Lobbies to Undermine Al-Maliki”
Proving yet again Iraq is a puppet democracy.
This should not be “Allawi’d”
1. Allawi was incompetent and corrupt. Have we already forgotten how al Maliki was supposed to strengthern the central government in the wake of Allawi’s ineptitude?
2. What would the military coup represent? The military is much riddled with sectarianism, only slightly less than the police
3. Is the US to engineer another regime change as the world watches? Nice message to Iran and Venezuela that would be..
IMO, some lobbying firms shouls stay out of this entirely.
LOL – A military coup that puts in a strongman/dictator would send a GREAT message to Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is dead, what is his son(Reza Pahlavi) up to, maybe he can rule over both Iran and Iraq.
I thought that the Bush doctrine was suppose to spread Democrat style government throughout the ME?
Rudi- Don’t forget that the president also told us that democracy over there may not resemble democracy over here. So if there’s a military coup or installation of a pro-U S corrupt puppet, Bush still gets credit for spreading the winds of freedom throughout the ME.
KR – This happened in Algeria in the 90′s and Turkey has a history of military coups, the military installs a secular government. War skeptics brought up these as examples, and were attacked for their thoughts. But Algeria and Turkey weren’t occupied when the military intervened, if the Iraqis have a coup while being occupied by the US, the other ME “democracies” won’t be happy. What happens if there’s a coup and Sadr is installed as Iraqis strongman?
Let’s have Saddam’s rotting bones take over Iraq again.