Recently, the folks over at The American Spectator saw fit to publish a piece I wrote about the political threat posed by radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Essentially, I make the argument that should Prime Minister al-Maliki allow a prolonged US troop presence in Iraq, Sadr’s private Mehdi Army won’t pose the primary threat to national security. Rather, his inevitable decision to remove his party from Maliki’s ruling parliamentary coalition will be more damaging to the fragile democracy taking shape in Baghdad than the 60,000 Kalashnikovs at his command.
If you’d like to read the piece…and I hope you will…please have a look here at the link: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/28/an-iraqi-time-bomb