Why Isn’t Anyone Giving Obama Credit for Ousting Maliki?

... country of Iraq in the face of such a reckless and violent onslaught and possible formal disintegration? The Solution: Local Politics First, or No Cavalry Obama brilliantly approved and executed a plan that minimized the potential pitfalls and maximized ... ... important Shiites in Iraq had already publicly noted Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. The cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose family had a long history of resistance in Iraq, going back at least to his great-grandfather who led a revolt against ...