Eli Lake, Columnist

Votes for a Rebel Cleric Prove the Resilience of Iraqi Democracy

Say what you will about the U.S. invasion, but one result is hard to dispute.

May 20, 2018 at 9:00 AM EDT

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Moqtada al-Sadr doesn’t symbolize what he used to.
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When it comes to Iraq, the fates have a sense of humor.

The party of the middle-aged cleric who once led an insurrection against U.S. forces won the most seats in last week's election — an election America's intervention 15 years earlier made possible.

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