Iraq was handed over to Islam by the fact that its Constitution, which we approved, enshrines Islam and sharia and specifies that nothing shall conflict with Islam. The particular flavor that comes out of an election, that is, Sunni or Shiite, is just a detail.
I will never be able to figure out why we took a country which was actually quite secular by that time and replaced a garden variety dictator with the most dictatorial system of all. We made that country safe for our mortal enemy, Islam.
>>>”I will never be able to figure out why we took a country which was actually quite secular by that time and replaced a garden variety dictator with the most dictatorial system of all. We made that country safe for our mortal enemy, Islam.”
Paul Wolfowitz et al might be able to shed more light.
Personally, I always believed that if we really wanted to focus on ‘war on terror’, we should’ve gone for the Islamic Republic of Iran in the first place.