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Monday, March 28, 2005
Juan Cole v. Star Tribune
The Star Tribune reported yesterday via AP:The Shiite Muslim likely to be Iraq's next prime minister said Saturday that the country's long-awaited government could be formed within days, an accomplishment that would mark the end of nearly two months of negotiations after the nation's first free elections in half a century.
Iraqi politicians, however, have been reporting that they were near a deal for at least a month.
I don't see a three-fifths compromise in the works. It's quite simple, in fact, to count a man as 3/5ths of a person. How, on the other hand, do you base a government on 3/5ths of the Koran? What, in other words, would a compromise look like? Either the new government predicates itself on Islamic law and tradition or it does not. I don't see a third way and I don't see any urgency to compromise.
Fortunately for Iraqis and Americans, I have no capacity for divination.
