Yeah this will help

Excerpted entirely from Marc Lynch:

"[Maliki] announced a seven-point plan to stabilize the area, including recruiting 10,000 more police and army forces from local tribes." - Associated Press.

Um, haven't we been told for the last year that it's simply impossible to hire more than 20% of the Sunni Awakenings fighters into the army and police, even if the increasingly urgent need to find jobs for these Sunni fighters is the single thing which keeps David Petraeus awake at night? Those 10,000 army and police jobs for local Shia tribes sure did materialize mighty fast. I guess it's easier to find jobs for certain tribesmen than others. I'm sure this will help with national reconciliation and the consolidation of a non-sectarian state. Jeebus.

Couldn't afford to hire 10,000 Sunnis.

Thanks to the splendid showing of Shiia police in Basra (sarcasm) will be hiring 10,000 more of them. All of them from the two rival Shiia parties (Dawa & SCIRI) that oppose Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Thousands of Basra police were fired for "mutiny". It's all rather absurdly laughable and tragic. But then, what hasn't been one or the other, usually combined in Iraq the last five plus years?

No Sunnis of course.

Yes, that will help national reconciliation very much indeed.