Well, that could apply to this news article or to my stated intention to blog every day that I am on this business trip to Boston. The intention to blog and turn in assignments in a timely fashion was trumped by a lack of internet access- it started working at my hotel today. The staff must've figured out what was wrong with it.
So, the news article is about political failure in Iraq. In it we read that the Sunnis are boycotting the Iraqi parliament.
I have serious doubts about the efficacy of this tactic. Their fundamental problem seems to be that they (the Sunni parliamentarians) are being marginalized. The problem I see with their response has a couple of aspects to it. The first is that if you actually are being marginalized, you have people actively working to silence you. What good does it do to do your enemies' work for them by refusing to attend sessions and speak? The second is that even if your marginalization is a product of ego and paranoia, and doesn't really exist, you are working against yourself by removing yourself from an equation in which you could shift the balance to your own benefit?
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Why are you on a business trip to Boston? Hope Boston is nice out there, I definitely miss Brookline and the jazzed up city, and definitely the Thai/Indian foods. Good you got that internet working! The news article regarding political failure in Iraq is pretty similiar to the political failure in Islamic militant in Bangladesh. They lost political support and populacy.
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