Here we go again. With the start of the Iraqi campaign season, doomsters are back with predictions of disaster for the newly liberated nation. Some claim the election could be a prelude to civil war. Others warn that the nation's Shiite majority might, in a moment of madness, choose an Iranian-style theocracy. Still others point to the Kurdish show of disaffection as a sign the multi-ethnic country may well be heading for disintegration, and that the coming elections could speed up the process. Yet most doomsters are the same people who opposed first the liberation of Iraq, and then the...
