Iraq three years on: Don't look away

Independent Online Edition > Middle East:

"The formation of a national unity government is now being presented as an antidote to violence. 'Terrorists love a vacuum,' said the Defence Secretary, John Reid, citing his experience in Northern Ireland. But one Iraqi official remarked caustically that the three main communities - Sunni, Shia and Kurds - do not 'hate each other because they do not have a government, but rather they do not have a government because they already hate each other.'"