After all, given the brutal logic of their long hegemony in Iraq, why should the Sunnis contemplate submitting to a process that is premised on their minority status, particularly when whole areas of the country are under the effective control of the Sunni insurgency? Similarly, why should the Shias, for their part, submit to Sunni hegemony rather than building up their own political structure in the south, modeled on what the Kurds have already achieved in the north?
毕竟，就其在伊拉克的长期霸权的残酷逻辑来看，逊尼派为什么要考虑对一个企图恢复其少数派地位的进程委屈求全，特别是在整个国家都处在逊尼派叛乱的有效控制之下的时候？同样，就什叶派而言，他们为什么不仿效北部的库尔德人的成功模式在南部建立自己的政治架构，而却要臣服于逊尼派的霸权呢？