Iraq veering back to civil war as Shia rule with heavy hand

Iraq veering back to civil war as Shia rule with heavy hand - Middle East News | Latest News Headlines | The Irish Times - Sun, May 19, 2013: 

"Under an ethno-sectarian powersharing system, comparable to Lebanon’s long-established one, the communities’ representatives were to engage in a continuous, institutionalised “dialogue” about each one’s portion of authority and entitlement within the whole. But Lebanon’s history has shown that, when it breaks down, such a system is apt to lead to civil war; and that is what it is now perilously close to doing in Iraq."