[Alberta's Child]

Iraq is already one of the most heavily-armed countries in the world, and in many areas there is very little "law enforcement" to speak of.

Most people have no idea how docile and helpless a population can be after it's been exposed to nanny-state socialism in an urban setting for so like.

[RightWhale]

nanny-state socialism

That is not what the ME has experienced. They have had caliphate and they have had sheikh and they have had sultan. All of these rely on family for state structure, and division of labor for economic function. They have no experience of the state in itself, neither capitalist nor communist nor caste nor Confucian.