I agree with you billbears. Federal agents managed to turn every small farmer into a sharecropper during Reconstruction, and the entire South had their forests cut down. I believe it is studied in military colleges as the worst post-war administration in the history of warfare.
Why can't we look at how modern Muslim leaders control their people? It is quite simple. They get rid of clerics who oppose them. After all, it's religion that drives these idiots, and their religion comes in shades from practical to fanatic.
We need to do as Tunisia does; ban the veil in Iraq and this will bring out the fanatics to be eliminated. There is nothing in the Koran about the veil.
Not only are the American people tired of hearing that stuff, but it has to make things harder to keep boradcasting it to our enemies.