The constitution is likely to fuel rather than dampen insurgency,
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The main danger is that the constitution ratifies and exacerbates the sectarian divisions within the country, ... Both the process through which it was done and the content are deepening the divide between Kurds and Shiites on one side and the Sunnis on the other. If the constitution is only approved by only two of the three communities, it will only be a confirmation of Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divisions rather than an attempt to overcome them. This has not advanced the process of reconciliation it has only more likely is a step backward.Robert Malley
A compact based on compromise and broad consent could have been a first step in a healing process. Instead it is proving yet another step in a process of depressing decline.
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It's not clear that the Israelis would benefit from the breakdown of Palestinian Authority, which would bring chaos, instability, renewed violence against Israel.
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a case study of pinning too much hope on an electoral process without doing so much of the other work.
Robert Malley
Success in Iraq is not about democracy or non-democracy it's about reaching consensus on a political pact that all parties agree to, ... If they don't agree, the political process won't help.
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