The Iraqi Breakdown

Between the Thanksgiving Holiday and a shitload of work, I've obviously been neglectful in getting up some posts ... and tons of stuff has been going down, especially a lot of news from Iraq.

One issue I want to touch on is how time and time again the righties almost blindly and faithfully jump on some solution for Iraq only to have it kick back on them. A recent example is how they hailed the new Iraqi Constitution.

The Right naysayed all of us Liberals who pointed out that the Constitution was problematic on its face. One big problem we mentioned was the rights regarding oil distribution set forth. We claimed it would lead to a greater sectarian divide with the Kurds grabbing most of the oil in the North and the Southern Shiites doing the same in the South. The Sunnis in the middle would be left largely high and dry. The Right claimed the ambiguous language in the Constitution would provide sufficient protection as would the last minute deal to revisit the Constitution in the future.

Yet, today we learn from the LA Times that the Northern Kurds are in no waiting mood and have made a significant grab to immediately profit from the Northern oil fields without the participation of the central government.

The coming of such a move was obvious to the Left and it will certainly exacerbate the growing sectarian divide. But why time and again do we have to listen to the Right's fanciful ruminations when their track record of being wrong on the most obvious things is so deeply established.