Last American troops leave Iraq, and we get to see what forty-four hundred Americans died for:

Iraqi PM asks Kurds to hand over Vice-President Hashemi

Nouri al-Maliki admitted that the Iraqi government still had a long way to go to find stability

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has urged the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq to hand over fugitive Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi.

An arrest warrant was issued for Iraq’s most senior Sunni Arab politician on Monday on terrorism charges.

Mr Hashemi denies the charges and his entire political bloc is boycotting parliament and the cabinet.

Tensions between Sunnis and the Shia Arab majority appear to be coming to a head, a BBC correspondent says.

“Up” side: Saddam Hussein is out.

“Down” side: There is NO way that anything resembling stability will come to this region with a repressive, ‘strong-man’ type government.

Folks, sorry… It’s just not in the make-up. I got examples: Let’s look at “Arab Spring” and what it’s done for the stability of Egypt.

Go ahead! Show me a democracy in the Middle East that DOESN’T have the Star of David flying over it.