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Washington made quite clear it wants Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to embrace Sunni politicians as a condition of U.S. support to fight a lightning advance by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Then something unexpected happened: Iraq's Shi'ite rulers defied Western calls on Tuesday to reach out to Sunnis to defuse the uprising in the north of the country, declaring a boycott of Iraq's main Sunni political bloc and accusing Sunni power Saudi Arabia of promoting "genocide."

This Is Not Going As Planned: Iraq Prime Minister Defies US, Accuses Saudi Arabia Of "Genocide" | Zero Hedge

Looks like this isn't going away anytime soon. No political solution in sight, which would be to embrace moderate Sunni's, who feel disenfranchised by the government for quite some time, and isolate ISIS. That's basically what the surge did militarily. Oh well..

On the other hand, it's their country..