Iraq's murky post-election mess was awfully disturbing—a recent war zone at the center of the world's most strategically important region was still without a government, two months after a national election. Yesterday, after weeks of wrangling, the two top Shia coalitions—Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law list and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA)—announced they would join forces. But that's not much of a relief.
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