Who Will Bring Iraq Together?

Obama has united a divided America into one national camp. Now, who will bring us (in Iraq) together?

Let’s look at Obama’s victory from another angle:

Obama would not have been able to achieve his glorious victory in the US presidential elections if a majority of Americans had not been brought together by him. This was only possible after America had become divided by the disastrous policies of the Bush administration. We say that Obama was able to unify Americans in tight lines with the hope of regaining a renewed, united, national awareness by introducing political, economic, and social programs that spoke to the concerns of US voters, along with an ideology of change which most Americans felt served their individual interests as well as the national interest as a whole.

But more importantly, Obama sought to gain their trust and when they found that he was credible, they gave their trust to him.

They did so because he persuaded them with his credibility, as well as the chance to obtain that which he had promised, even if only to a small degree… They did so without paying any attention to whether Obama was black or white, Sunni or Shiite Muslim, Catholic or Protestant Christian, Hasidic or secular Jew, of white Irish immigrant stock or Kenyan black slave origin.

Most of the voters coming from those different religious, racial, and ancestral backgrounds, after they were sure of his honesty and credibility, gave him their trust and voted for him, bringing the most handsome of black men into the White House.

How great is our need for a charismatic Iraqi political leader like Obama, who has overarching national credibility, and who can–as Obama did with most Americans–gather the majority of Iraqis with all their diversity to rise above the sectarian bias and racist nationalism which cater to single groups, and to make foreign allegiances, placing in front of them the interests of Iraq and all Iraqis as his first and last priority.

We believe that currently there aren’t any Iraqi politicians who possess any of the aforementioned characteristics or attributes.

And if such a politician were found – which would be a rare commodity indeed – from the ranks of Iraqi society, it is certain that most Iraqis would support him and vote for him after they make sure of his honesty and national credibility as a true Iraqi.

Until that time, we must ask ourselves: now that Obama has unified a divided America, who will bring us together?

Asking this question is more important now than ever before because Joe Biden, the new Vice President to Barack Obama, was among those who developed the plan to divide Iraq along sectarian, nationalistic, and racial lines!