Will Iraq Survive the Tsunami: Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'is in Self-Destructive Conflict

Intrigued by the ongoing evocations in the US of the Iraq War, and its anticlimactic consequences apparent in this country s landscape of human misery with the social protest and the demonstrations which sweep throughout its major cities, Muhammed Al Da mi attempts an answer to the question of whether the US has done any good for itself or for Iraq by that gigantic military venture as it revives its significance now more than ever, given the alarming fall of a third of Iraq s territory and more of Syria s to terror and the cross-border extension of Iraq s sectarian turmoil with its consequent Iranian hegemony there. Against this troubled backdrop, Al Da mi moves the reader toward an understanding of the initial Iraq rift which seems to forerun its disintegration, with a specific reference to the divisive role the US-brought exile leaderships played to dissolve the national nexus and replace it by bonds of minor allegiance