He uses the same reigns and vectors for power that the lot of them use be it Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Russian or US American power monger. But instead of padding the bottom line of KBR, Blackwater, and Caterpillar he pads his community. Jerk, indeed.From Day 1, he has used his office to install Shiites in key security posts, drive out Sunni politicians and generals and direct money to Shiite communities. In a word, Maliki has been a total jerk.
No one should even pay a single word of attention to this blowhard. He's been basically wrong about everything he's written in the past dozen years. Friedman is the definition of a windbag. If the Times knew what was good for them, they would have fired all of their Iraq War Cheerleaders in about 2004 when it became obvious to those to whom it wasn't obvious is 2002 that the war was a huge mistake. They needed to purge, and could still use a bit.