You're right Joel didn't, and i had either not known, or forgotten much of what al-Maliki had done. So yes, i agree, another president hopefully after
Maliki could make much more of a difference than Joel suggested. It's Monday morning in Iraq now so hopefully Maliki could be gone by their nightfall.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”