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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
If that's the goal, there are two problems: (i) it seems to make regional instability in the short term a primary goal of US foreign policy, which I find hard to believe; and (ii) in order to work in the long run Iraq must not become an unstable area similar to the Caucuses or the Taliban-era Afghanistan, where there is a rats nest of terrorist training grounds in an area where it is difficult to project police or military authority.
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(iii) It would be good if the Iraqis do not use their new-found democratic rights to elect, say, Moqtada-al-Sadr.
This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the Mideast may prove the old right-wing saw that some people just aren't "ready" for democracy.
