SocraticGadfly: Maliki doing Clintonesque “triangulation”?

August 25, 2009

Maliki doing Clintonesque “triangulation”?

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears to be listening to some US advisors and expanding his political base.

Question is, can distancing himself from some “harder-core” Shi’ite parties position his Dawa to attract more secular Iraqis of both Shi’a and Sunni persuasions, as well as pick off a few Kurds in the north, too?

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