The American Spectator by George H. Wittman June 21, 2013
Iraq is in the middle of a civil conflict that but for the lack of international media interest would be called a war. Sunni/Shia competition has existed for generations. This blood rivalry underpinned Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial rule and dominates Iraqi political life today. Only now the domination is on the majority Shia side. There are nearly twice as many adherents of Shia Islam than Sunni in Iraq. Post-Saddam the Shia have the determinant hand and the Sunni struggle against this new reality. The Americans and British who fought to make possible this “democratic rule of the majority” have gained little in political terms from shifting the power center.
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