re: #140 Belafon
Has anyone ever installed a good, lasting government on other people?
Iraq was not Afghanistan; it was a modern country with a functioning national government, just like Germany, and not run by religious fanatics. So my naive belief was that we could do what we did in Germany: eliminate Saddam and his worst henchmen and get the nation operational. Of course, we still have forces in Germany 75 years after the war was over. So that might have been a flaw with my plans.