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Ummmm...I'd rather discuss this with somebody who knows about this sort of thing.

But I will explain what I mean by raw material. I mean natural resources, a largely secularized, relatively well-educated people, with lots of exposure to western ideas. The British were there for awhile, remember. And a lot of Iraqis have Western educations. Unlike Afghanistan, which I personally think is a hopeless case, they have infrastructure--telephones, electricity, water, sanitation, factories, universities, some pretty decent highways, and they have the oil reserves to maintain it. That's what I mean when I say "raw material".