Iraq headed for civil war?

Patrick Cockburn, writing in the Independent, argues that Iraq is splitting along the expected sectarian lines: Kurd, Shia, and Sunni. In it he quotes Zilmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador to Iraq:

You can't have someone who is regarded as sectarian, for example, as Minister of the Interior.

This is a little rich, coming from a representative of the most divisive, exclusionary administration I've seen in my life. Pot, meet kettle.

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