The Iraqi Concept of Time
Condi Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw landed in Baghdad to lay down the law, but of course there is no law in Iraq at the moment, so they settled for a very sound slap on the wrist of interim prime minister Ibrahim al-Jafari.
That’s another problem at the moment. While Iraq disappears beneath their newly-elected feet, not only is there no law, there’s no government either. It’s rather like the current climate between Democrats and Republicans in Washington. Except for the fact that we have a country that functions best when Congress is in recess and the Iraqis don’t.
David Ignatius points out in his regular Wednesday column in the Washington Post, that Americans are getting impatient about Iraqis forming a new government.
That’s not really true, David. The administration may have its pants on fire, but most Americans haven’t a clue what their own politicians are up to, much less the flap between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. We want our boys home, but whether or not an interim …