Whether the gathering was a step toward a political resolution — or a meaningless footnote in Iraq's byzantine politics — remains to be seen.
Recently, three U.S. academic organizations, as a stance against Israeli politics, supported resolutions declaring their boycott on intellectual exchange with Israeli universities, and, by implication, Israeli scholars.
Tewfik has an interest in the global political economy with a particular focus on Middle Eastern politics and conflict resolution and used to be Executive Editor of the MIT International Review.
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"Mayor Bing is not concerned with the politics of the resolutions, only in having one of Detroit's greatest assets be well-maintained for the citizens of Detroit and visitors alike," said Naomi Patton, Bing's spokeswoman, in a statement to The Huffington Post.
Democratic politics depend on the resolution of differences through political battles rather than the military alternative.
Yet her third-rail touching was most offensive to the public because of the way it treated politics largely politically, which is to say messily and without resolution.
After the Kent State shootings in 1970, ACLU leaders took another step towards politics by passing a resolution condemning the Vietnam war.
"Youngsters pay the price of politics falling short of resolutions, of uncourageous politics," said Selahattin Demirtas, deputy chairman of Peace and Democracy, according to the semiofficial Anatolian news agency.
Bush might have been acting purely out of devotion to constitutional principle, but seeking the resolution was good politics, too.
