the Turkomen and Kurdish regions, the American forces can almost do no
wrong. In the west and the Sunni triangle, apparently its worse than
Vietnam. For the rest of the country apparently its mixed.
Remember that Iraq is an artificial country - it was established after the
first world war by the British and French from the remains of the Ottoman
Turk empire. You have to go back to around 800 AD during the Caliphate to
find a real country. And then it did not include the Kurdish region.
So in essence I do not think that stability will be achieved. The US forces
may be able to get out of there, but Iraq is going to be a cesspit for the
next few years.
larry
At 05:16 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
>Yes. Now if only a graceful way could be found to get them out of a
>situation into which they should not have been put in the first place...
>having invaded the US does need to leave the country relatively stable,
>unfortunately, since their presence does not appear to be desired by the
>locals. Get the elections held and get out I say.
>
>Dana
>
> >While I strongly disagree with going into Iraq, the behavior of American
> >forces there has been exemplary.
>
>
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