Iraq Takes Shape

Tony Blankley makes a very good point about the Iraqi Assembly's election of a President, Vice President, and Prime Minister, and their preliminary accord on tricky matters such as distribution of oil revenues among the sects:

"These would be very impressive negotiations for a mature democracy. Sens. Harry Reid and Bill Frist would be throwing their arms out slapping themselves on the back on television if they could achieve a small fraction of such agreements in the Senate this year. While the Senate -- the greatest deliberative body in the world, as they call themselves -- is moving toward the "nuclear option" in order to confirm some judicial nominations, the Desert Democratsof Mesopotamia are negotiating like 19th century wing-collared, top-hatted and tailed English statesmen. And our politicians don't labor under the burden of 4,000 years of blood feuds, no historical experience with anything other than dictatorship and the daily bomb and mortar attacks of terrorists, criminals, insurgents and prior regime last-ditchers."

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