re: #280 Dark_Falcon

Given how things were under Saddam, ethnic cleansing was inevitable at some point. When 20% of the population lords over the other 80% for around 30 years as brutally as the Sunni Ba’athists did, there is going to be hell to pay when the majority finally gets some ability to decide things. That’s not a good thing, but that’s The Way It Is.

That’s one of many reasons you don’t topple all the bureaucracies of a government without the ability to replace the functions they perform.

There as nothing “inevitable” about the ethnic cleansing that happened in Iraq. It was caused by incompetence and poor planning.