Sunnis rejoin Iraqi government, raising reconciliation hopes

Nancy Youssef of McClatchy comments on the return of the Iraqi government’s largest Sunni bloc to the national cabinet after a boycott that spanned nearly an entire year, citing demands met by the Maliki Shiite-majority government.  Though largely a political maneuver, the reunion of the two blocs portends, perhaps, a departure from bitter sectarianism and toward political reconciliation.