Elections in Iraq

I'm always looking for good news and reasons for optimism, and am very heartened by the elections in Iraq. After all the death and destruction over there in the past few years, it's nice to see some progress. Of course, insurgents will continue to attack, and who knows how much longer American forces will be over there, but at least there's some hope of progress now. The longer US troops stay over there, the more the perception of them as occupiers rather than liberators. The question is how to train an Iraq army, and get out of there, wihtout leaving a country on the verge of a sectarian civil war.