In his answer to Biden’s crit­i­cism, Maliki missed the major threat made by the Amer­i­can Vise Pres­i­dent. Accord­ing to Iraqi writer Yaseen Al-Badranisaying that one of the main char­ac­ter­is­tics of the cur­rent U.S. Admin­is­tra­tion is the con­ti­nu­ity of the for­eign policy.

Dif­fi­cult to com­pre­hend by Maliki and his big team of advis­ers, the writer said that the hid­den fact behind Biden’s threat is that Maliki’s days are numbered:

Biden’s state­ment indi­cates that the new Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion decided to put things in their right places and to clar­ify one fact that the United States is stay­ing in Iraq even after the troop’s withdrawal.

The per­cep­tion that Obama would be more “easy” than his pre­de­ces­sor, had evap­o­rated, Obama made Joe Biden his heavy stick on the Iraqi government.

The writer also noticed that the cur­rent U.S. admin­is­tra­tion is “flirt­ing” with Allawi [see Allawi yesterday’s three let­ters to Obama, Biden and Clin­ton].

Back again today with a new arti­cle, Iraqi writer Fad­hil Al-Ruba’i uses the same tone in his pre­vi­ous arti­cle and agrees with the above arti­cle, Al-Ruba’i says that the main feu­ture of Obama’s admin­is­tra­tion is the use of the “soft approach” and this what the writer means with “soft divid­ing Iraq” based on Biden’s early suggestion.

The writer also says that it is very early to con­clude that the results of the Provin­cial Elec­tion means the defeat of the “South Fed­er­al­ism” and the fail­ure of the Iran­ian project because sim­ply, “fed­er­al­ism” wasn’t an Iran­ian idea, it was an Amer­i­can project, made in Amer­ica adopted by Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs loyal to Iran:

Fed­er­al­ism wasn’t and Iranian-origin project, and there no suf­fi­cient evi­dence avail­able of direct Iran­ian involve­ment, for­mu­la­tion or pro­mot­ing this project.

It is true that the role of the forces and par­ties, and per­son­al­i­ties close to Tehran, but also true that Tehran did not put any form of such a project. It has left “ally” Supreme Coun­cil to act on its behalf after it became clear to Tehran that the Amer­i­cans want to dis­man­tle and re-install the “fed­eral” Iraqi entity.

The writer denies any achieve­ment in the Provin­cial Coun­cil, except that it is one step to advance the soft Amer­i­can “fed­er­al­ism” project away from the Iran­ian intervention.