A terrifying and dark future

It's official. Iraq has no agreement on its constitution, and whatever hell hasn't yet broken loose among the Sunni population is headed in that direction:

Iraq's Shiite-dominated constitution committee will submit an amended draft charter to parliament this weekend despite opposition from minority Sunni Arabs who rejected a proposed compromise, negotiators said Saturday.

But Sunni negotiators said they did not accept the revised document...

"There is a terrifying and dark future awaiting Iraq," (a Sunni negotiator) said. "It is important to present services for the Iraqis now, as well as to maintain security, and it is not important to write a piece of paper that all Iraqis disagree on."...

Sadoun Zubaydi, a Sunni member of the drafting committee, blamed the Americans for interfering in what was supposed to be an Iraqi process.

"To the last minute, this supposedly Iraqi process is being dictated by the U.S. government," he said.

The frightening part is that the negotiators were surely among the Sunnis most willing to contemplate solutions through the political process rather than through civil war. If the negotiators themselves couldn't get agreement and a Shiite solution (with U.S. influence) is being pushed down Sunni throats, that only fuels the fire of the insurgents who have stayed away from the political process all along.