amy: we're speaking to matthieu aikins in karachi, pakistan.don't know if that is a crow behind you or something. you begin your piece by saying if you visited the interior ministry compound in baghdad during the holy month this past fall, you would be forgiven for thinking iraq will elect its neighbor iran, is a country whose official religion is shiite islam. explain. >> the thing is, you wouldn't just be confronted with these the december but make no pretense that iraq is a state that is supposed to have equal regards to the different sects and religions. baghdad is now a shia city. i think one of the things we of scene after the event this summer -- a lot of these things were happening before. many predicted what would happen in amerli dialo, was predicted by human rights watch, which would amount to ethnic cleansing, in my view. the mask has slipped off and there's really no pretense or attempt at pretense that this is not a sectarian war that is been fought by the primitive actors. and besides, isis and militias. aaron: given this dynamic