This head­line “Six years of the US dwelling in Iraq” pub­lished on Russ­ian Novosti Arabic-edition, it says the following:

The U.S. still con­sid­ers the pos­si­bil­ity of divid­ing Iraq into three regions, the Kurds in north­ern Iraq, the Sun­nis in the cen­ter and the Shi­ite in the South.

Which means that the U.S. author­i­ties unaware of the con­se­quences, because such a divi­sion could cause polit­i­cal prob­lems with neigh­bor­ing countries.

Since Maliki change his mind about his own rec­on­cil­i­a­tion ini­tia­tive (read Badger’s entry “News, and a ques­tion about Journo­List”, and see below also), I won­der if this “divid­ing Iraq” still an option!

Al-Qabas cov­er­age of the impact of Obama’s mes­sage to Iran on Iraq says the following:

Pres­i­dent Obama’s mes­sage to Iran showed that Iraqi politi­cians have not fully recov­ered from the sec­tar­ian deal which estab­lished the polit­i­cal process.

The Shi­ite polit­i­cal forces look at Obama’s move with high hopes, to bridge the US-Iranian rela­tion­ship, and remove the con­cerns of the US bias to other forces, which ben­e­fit from the US – Iran con­fronta­tion relation.

The Sun­nis rushed to express their con­cerns on the con­se­quences this [US – Iran] rela­tion improve­ment, and some offi­cials described Obama’s mes­sage as an effort to revive the “new Mid­dle East”, which includes the new Iran, Israel and other coun­tries in the region.

Khair Al-Din Haseeb is not only a writer, but he is the head of Al-Wahda study Cen­ter in Beirut. In his arti­cle “Iraq … to where?” (orig­i­nally pub­lished on Al-Quds Al-Arabi):

The Amer­i­can prob­lem in Iraq is the following:

1– A) They want to with­draw from Iraq sav­ing face. B) They don’t want to leave chaos behind in Iraq.

2– The biggest US dilemma in Iraq is that there is no guar­an­tee to achieve the “non-chaos” sta­tus in Iraq after the withdrawal.

The rec­on­cil­i­a­tion

the con­clu­sion of Iraqi writer Al-Alwaji pub­lished on Egypt­ian news­pa­per Al-Araby is: Maliki is not really seri­ous in his rec­on­cil­i­a­tion ini­tia­tive. the writer listed the points say­ing that the Army is still based on sec­tar­ian motives, the “Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Com­mit­tee” still exists, pres­sure from his Shi­ite allies …and many other rea­sons make Maliki’s call unre­al­is­tic.