Kurdish and Sunni Arab leaders say Mr. Jaafari has not done enough to ease sectarian violence.
The new defense minister is a Sunni Arab.
The (Sunni) Arab world loathes and fears Iran on sectarian grounds and also because it espouses a revolutionary doctrine of the sort that kings and dictators find disquieting.
Instead he proposes to act“ sequentially”, starting by securing the mixed Sunni-Shia neighbourhoods of Baghdad to show even-handedness, and then moving to the towns surrounding the capital before attempting to take on the most important Sunni and Shia strongholds.
Even under the rosiest scenarios, the U.S. will suffer a humbling blow to its prestige as it leaves Iraq and the Sunni-Shi 'ite civil war intensifies.
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