Salam Pax on the Constitution -- "Me Not Happy"

Salam Pax [a secular Iraqi] writes from Baghdad:

I don’t know what will happen when the deadline approaches but at the moment I feel like if I am not a religious Shia or a Kurd I am supposed to be neither heard nor seen. At least religious Sunnis can say their leaders told them it was against Allah will to play along. But what happens to you if you subscribe to none of those agendas? What happens if you believe that neither religion nor ethnic background is the way you want to be identified? What about just being Iraqi?

What indeed! A consistent failure of both our domestic and foreign policies has been a tendency to focus intently on the parts and to ignore the whole. In doing so we exacerbate and institutionalize differences. That is the great failing of the "broker" mentality. Some would say it's the failure of the sociological imagination.

Read Salam's comments here.

And check out his TV show "Baghdad Blogger" on Link Network.