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To: michael97123 who wrote (176256)	11/29/2005 11:23:13 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As always i hope you are right but it less than certain that things are moving this way. Believe me, the folks I work with have our moments of doubt as well.. But then we look at the kids, and say.. "I don't want these kids fighting ours 10 years from now after we permit an Islamic Militant religious tyranny to brainwash them into waging Jihad" (not an exact quote, but pretty close). We may not succeed in creating a unified and democratic Iraq. After all, the ultimate responsibility rests squarely upon the Iraqi people. But lacking success in creating some form of stable democracy in the near term, the only alternative is a hybrid (such as a constitutional monarchy), or god forbid, a dictatorial state that is able to keep the Islamic militants in check, but poses little threat to its neighboring states. We have to be willing to accept that the latter may be a possible result that we have to settle for. But it certainly is not the preferred result. It may just be a transitional period that Iraq needs to go through before it's ready to think more about the social and economic ambitions of the Iraqis, than having the ambition to dominate the region. I'm fairly pragmatic about it. Hawk