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Civil war and sectarian rule have tarnished the prestige of religious parties and increased the appeal of a non-sectarian government.
Rice said the new Iraqi government was rebuilding armed forces which had "atrophied" under the sectarian rule of the former president, Nouri al-Maliki, and that there was no need for US ground troops.
Ultimately, Abouzeid notes, Isil isn't marching across Iraq alone: Disenfranchised Sunnis from across the political spectrum, including former Saddam loyalists, are also involved, drawn together by the increasingly autocratic and sectarian rule of the Iraqi government.
Mr. Assad's ruling Baath Party professes a secular, pan-Arab socialism, but Sunnis, who make up about 74 percent of the population, have long bridled at what they see as sectarian rule by the Alawites, who are nominally Shiite Muslims and make up only 13 percent of the population.
Sheikh Ali Hatem Sleiman al-Duleimi, whose Baghdad compound was recently confiscated after he publicly insulted Iran's most senior cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused Maliki of moving swiftly to consolidate sectarian rule in a vacuum left by the US military, which left Iraq last Thursday.
With its leverage weakened, Washington was far less able to influence former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's increasingly misguided and sectarian rule.
UK troops act as a tactical reserve, turning up in force quickly and decisively where they are needed and making a non-sectarian rule of law stick.
Under the new constitution, provinces and regions will run the police and gendarmerie, fostering a further worry that sectarian militias may rule local roosts.
The US has grown disillusioned with Maliki's sectarian and authoritarian rule, viewing these tendencies as conducive to Isis's growth in Sunni-majority parts of Iraq.
Under US rule, sectarian militias launched a campaign of terror, hunting down activists, artists, academics and anyone who challenged their vision of society.
