I look at Iraq and her neighbours and just wince....their all treacherous.
Some situations become multi-layered for those who dream of toppling govs...and one gov in the region is very vulnerable..that being Jordan.
Yassir..the Fatah,,,Hamas[Palestinanian version of Hizbullah],Islamic Jihad..etc...want to put the young King in a pine box if they can.
Now he is in the way of the "Peoples" comming to free the besieged Iraqi's.
Even if the Iraqi's settle into a quasi relationship with a gov set in place by the U.S....the other Islamic nations surrounding Iraq will have hordes marching in their streets chanting "America has bewitched the Iraqi's...the Americans are making the Iraqi's dogs just like the Zionist want"..type thing.
So like Vietnam...insergents will slip into Iraq...and do what terrorists do..and then hunkerdown after to tell stories after their little terror ops...trying to win the confused Iraqi's back to pure Islam.
The other side of this nightmare is that a certain percentage of Iraqi's actually want the U.S. to go...and here you have a Vietnam repeat.
Will Iran be content to leave Iraq alone?
Can Jordan stop the pyscho terror orgs from the Palestinian realms from entering Iraq?
Will Syria reign in Hizbullah ,Al Qeda and other terror orgs in south Lebanon?
Time will tell...
It's a very, very bold thing we do--something no one, not 41 or 42, no one would have thought, let alone do.
It's epic and fraught with danger.
But the thought of freedom is a mustard seed.