Al-Zaidi gambles on finally breaking the militias’ grip on Iraq

For more than two decades, Iraqi prime ministers have pledged to establish a basic principle of sovereignty: Only the government should possess the power to decide when the country goes to war and who carries weapons in its name. Yet successive leaders have been unable to turn that principle into reality. Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi is now trying again. This time, however, the circumstances surrounding Iraq are different enough to raise an important question: Could he actually succeed? Speaking