[EveningStar]

ping

[nikos1121]

I really don't agree with you. If Hamas fails they will not let anyone else succeed. It will take a generation of fortitude to stand up to these people...as the terrorism and havoc they reek on their own kind will be horrendous.

Look at the photos of the armed gunmen at those polling booths.

[SJackson]

Totalitarian regiemes from Hitler to Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, et al have just fine at "ruling", aka staying in power. As have Islamic regiemes. The mullahs are still in Iran, Sudan is doing just fine, and the Taliban was deposed by the US, not the local population. That aside, Hamas will likely govern as well as Fatah, though they'll begin enacting sharia.