Iraq Finds Its Voice

The Iraqi interim government has finally elected its speaker.

The system they've got going is very remenicent of Lebanon's old system, whereby there was a Maronite Christian president and a Druze something or other and a Shi'ite something or other. The reason this makes me nervous is because, as you can see, the system in Lebanon fell apart because it was a static system based on ensuring a voice to certain groups, but didn't take into accound changing demographics in its representation. Let's hope history has shown these Iraqis something.