Bloodless Coup

The Wall Around Adhamiya and "Other Walls"

Funny, I thought Iraq was now a democracy with an independent government. Did President Bush lie to me? Because if it is a democracy with an independent government, you'd think that a call by the prime minister to stop a foreign power from building a wall inside his country would actually prevent that wall from being built.

And of course as a political matter the prime minister is quite right the US government is so stupid that the level of stupidity can barely be comprehended. Given current events, the construction of the wall will clearly do more to equate both US forces in Iraq and the Maliki government with the Israeli government. And how that's good for either US interests in the region, or the stability of the Iraqi government ... well there's not a singly plausible argument for that being a good idea. It's an astonishingly bad idea, from a political standpoint.