Tim Daneliuk wrote in news:f7duc6-c301.ln1
@ozzie.tundraware.com:

Go read the history of Germany
and Japan in the immediate post-war period.

Yes. Indeed. The police were kept intact. Civilian and political order
were restored. Industrial capacity etc were brought back. Something
like the Marshall plan.

In Iraq? The political and civilian authorities disappeared. There was
no control over the people anymore whatsoever. Ammunition dumps were
unguarded. People were thrown out of jobs with their former employers.
On top of the inability of the B administration to get the very, VERY
diverse political streams cooperating. No wonder with religious, as well
as ethnic rivalries like shiites and sunnis and kurds, ottomans, arabs
all vying for maximum power they ever had as individual (and probably
murderous) groups.

Until the fictitious entity Iraq organizes itself as something where each
groups has enough say to its own satisfaction, there won't be peace
unless imposed upon by some organization (either the US or NATO or the
baathists (spelling?)).

Next time, please remember that in order to be victor, you either need to
utterly destroy everything and all, or you have to have both a
governmental structure and a rebuilding effort to appease the locals.

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Best regards
Han
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