Re: The future of semi-stable democracies like \"New Iraq\"
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So the United States might end up in Iraq with a regime that's stable enough to allow a dignified exit of those damn U.S. troops (who continue to get annoyingly killed every day) yet unstable enough to affect the whole region's peace once again. Shiites against Sunni Jordan? Sunnis against Shiite Iran? Kurds against Turks? Combinations thereof? Pick yer poison, those analysts say.
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"damn" US troops ??
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In restrospect, those (otherwise hawkish) analysts conclude that a Saddam Hussein who would have been tamed enough and brought to his senses enough and made pliable enough (through the methods that now seem, again in restrospect, to have been succeeding towards such an objective), would have been the West's best option to keep the lid on and hold together what is called Iraq.
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Saddam Hussein as the "best option" to hold the region together? In "retrospect", with these "analysts" un-biased opinions and understandings of the region this is difficult to buy. Relying on ones safety with an insane dictator is usually not the best option.
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