[Amelia]

I suspect the government is afraid of its own shadow at this point. Many are no doubt in fear of being assassinated at any moment.

I don't doubt that.

The de-Baathification strategy seems not to have worked very well, and it seems it would've been better to establish security before trying to establish democracy (and might still) but again, perhaps that's 20/20 hindsight.

[Txsleuth]

Yeppers...that IS 20/20 hindsight, and not only unproductive...but it so makes our enemies happy to keep reading these 20/20 hindsight remarks.