Opinion: Everybody must get stoned, or, at least we finally found somebody to blame

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‘It’s all your fault,’ one man screams at Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki as a crowd of Shiites throw rocks at the leader’s car. Reuters reports that ‘Iraqis...decry’ Maliki’s inability to rein in militants and jumpstart the economy, but the use of the term ‘Iraqis’ at all must now be seen as wishful thinking. To the extent that any such group exists, it is united only in its desire to kick the United States out of the country formerly known as Iraq. It’s a pretty safe bet that when the Baghdad rockers say they want Maliki to put up a better fight against militants, they’re not thinking of the Mahdi army.