Woops, there goes another benchmark

This piece in today's NYTimes about the Kurds objective to the just passed provincial elections law in Iraq. Their objections will likely mean rejection of the law by the Presidency Council and a postponement of elections until next year.

As the article pointed out, neither the Sunnis (who boycotted the last elections) nor the Sadrists, who would probably do well, will be pleased with that development. One even has to suspect that both the Kurds and the ISCI faction of the Shi'ites prefer it that way since they have a near-hammerlock on the Iraqi government as things currently stand and, in fact, voted against the law.