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To: SilentZ who wrote (246043)	8/15/2005 11:41:06 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572158

But if they can't, it's not necessarily their fault... it's not an easy thing to do; we haven't been able to do it. Most every country in the world outside Somalia and Sudan can police themselves reasonably well. And once the US leaves, it seems the anti-crusade "insurgent" motive would fade pretty much. Then you're left with bandits (which sounds controllable) and/or factional fighting between the ethnic groups. If Iraq splits into 3 countries, two of them relatively successful (Kurdistan and Shiastan) and one of them a complete mess (Loseristan), that would be just desserts. If they can hold it together, better yet. If they are completely unable to police themselves in any form, then what good are they on the planet anyway? We certainly broke it... 'it' being Saddam's authoritarian, unpopular dictatorship which denied basic rights to 80% of the population, yes. We broke it like a twig. Good for us. Let it be a lesson to similar regimes.