Regardless of which way the vote goes, I suspect that a large number of the people who do not get their wish will follow their historic tendency to resort to violence to try and get their way.
It is to be expected, normal growing pains for a culture emerging from under the thumb of a ruthless dictator.
I hope our guys are aware of the possibility, planning for the worst, hoping for the best, and that whatever harm comes out of this, it remains as minimal as possible.
Thumbs up to the Iraqi people as a whole for enduring the often painful transition to real freedom after all these decades in hell.
"Regardless of which way the vote goes, I suspect that a large number of the people who do not get their wish will follow their historic tendency to resort to violence to try and get their way."
Yes, with their culture and historical tendencies, I think they'll have a hard time, even if they agree to a great extent. They need to fast-forward a few hundred years and get out of the middle ages.