
No more dawdling! So said US Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, on Tuesday, to Iraqi politicians: Senators push Iraq to form government. Apparently, Iraqi leaders have been fighting the good infight since the formation of a permanent parliment in December of 2005, and the Senators—Levin, Warner, and four others—want to see something get done.
I am, frankly, confused: are we not trying to help Iraq create a free democratic society in the very mold of the American vision? And yet we want their politicians, of all people, to be efficient?
A wire has been crossed, somewhere.



