LOL. You are engaging in fantasy. What you describe will not even vaguely resemble the outcome if we leave Iraq anytime soon.
"LOL. You are engaging in fantasy. What you describe will not even vaguely resemble the outcome if we leave Iraq anytime soon."
The beauty of this "fantasy", if that is what it is, is that it is not a long-term, never-can-tell thing, but something we'll be able to see in the short term.
In three weeks: elections.
Then the Shi'ite government takes power.
And then...?
I've predicted the mobilization large forces in the non-Sunni parts of the country to crackdown, very, very harshly, on the ones in rebellion...which are all Sunni.
I've also predicted that the new government will be cordial to the US, but cool, and that it will make it clear that IT is the sovereign, elected government of Iraq.
The Shi'ite government of Iraq will be like the French to us. Not an enemy. But very clear as to who is in command of Iraq.
This will irritate a lot of us here.
Once again, I say Count on it.
And the beauty is you can save this, put it by your computer, and nail me with it in three months if I'm wrong.
But I won't be.