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

... seeking a third term, breaking a promise he made not to run again. Just days after Maliki announced this, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani sent a private letter to the leaders of Maliki’s own party, Dawa, telling them “I see the need to speed up ... ... to distance themselves from him and abandon him. The Obama Administration Makes Its Move: Checkmate on Maliki Tens of thousands of Yazidis were running out of time, though, and facing genocide, and ISIS kept making gains, even threatening Erbil, capital ...