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Iraq
The Iraq Debacle Continues
2013-01-05
Long post by Ted Galen Carpenter in the National Interest. Interesting thesis, the core of which is that Iraq is getting worse and may well come to a head this year. Key quote:

"Iraq has democratic forms, but it does not consistently practice democratic norms."

That's an understatement.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [WND.com] US-INSTALLED IRAQ GOVERNMENT IN DANGER?, of collapse + civil war as led by Turkey + Saudi Arabia agz Maliki Govt???

and

* RELATED SAME > IRAQI UPRISING 2013.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-05 21:28  

#2  Mubarak, Musharaf, Khadaffi, Assad, even Hussein and the KSA royal family - it should be getting clearer why we supported the 'devils we knew' for so long.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-05 09:02  

#1  Democracy like liberty and individualism are more states of mind than of pieces of paper.

All of those are totally antithetical to Islam so they will never have the norms regardless of the forms. The same is true of all Muzzie lands.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-01-05 08:09  

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