30th August 2005, 12:18 AM
If you think that that constitutional assembly fully represents the Iraqi people, you're not thinking straight... the most obvious problem, of course, was the Sunni boycott that massively underrepresented them in the convention -- giving the Kurds and Shi'ites the chance to ignore them, which they have done. Yes, the Sunnis weren't cooperating, but that's because it isn't in their intrests to agree with what the Shi'ites and Kurds want... and now the Shi'ites and Kurds think that they can win by just ignoring them and betting that the Sunnis won't vote in a cohesive enough group to defeat this constitution... which may be true and may not. We'll see.
Or rather, don't expect the insurgency (mostly Sunni) to go anywhere anytime soon.
Or rather, don't expect the insurgency (mostly Sunni) to go anywhere anytime soon.