David Mack Quotes

I wouldn`t talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds.

Just imagine if a Shiite couple are seeking a divorce. She can get a divorce under the civil code and with difficulty get it under Shiite law, but no alimony or child custody (for children) above a certain age. . . . This is a recipe for real problems.

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Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there`s been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.

We wanted (the Sunnis) to mobilize politically, but we certainly didn`t want them to mobilize politically against the constitution.

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It may be his way of telling the generals to stop talking about drawing down the forces.

The constitution is not only a disaster for a lot of the people who share the secular democratic perspective, whether Sunni, Shiite or Kurdish. It`s also leading to some version of a sharia state . . . not necessarily a theocracy but certainly a state where there is a dominant role for Muslim clerics.

That`s the unfortunate thing. I sent a kid to the hospital today, a 6-2 post player who gives us 21 points a night and a load of rebounds. That made a big difference tonight.