There is something pathetic in the recent efforts by the Bush administration (reported by the New York Times this week) to try to enlist Europe, the Arab world, and the United Nations to pressure the ruling Shi'ite-Kurdish coalition in Baghdad led by Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to include members of the Sunni minority in the political process.

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Leon Hadar is a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He is the author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

This article was originally published in the Singapore Business Times.