How Maliki ruined Iraq

Not long ago, stability and security in Iraq seemed possible. Maliki's corruption shattered any hopes of that.

Iraq
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Hussein Malla))

When Mosul fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) on June 10, most Iraqis were, like the rest of the world, shocked. When two other cities fell days later with minimal resistance from the Iraqi security forces, the response was horror. How in just a matter of days could a cancerous, extremist organization defeat Iraq's U.S.-trained security forces, which count more than one million personnel in their ranks and have received close to $100 billion in funding since 2006?

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