On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Beyond this, how can we be so sure a "complete
> withdrawal of U.S. troops at this point is tantamount
> to ceding control of the country to another brutal
> dictator or religious junta"? Virtually everyone
> seems to know, with an odd certainty, that the
> presence of US forces is keeping the lid on an even
> worse worse pot than we're presently stewing in from
> boiling over.
I know this is idle speculation, but if a foreign army invaded the U. S., removed the existing government and then left, I suspect there would be an ugly struggle for political power and most likely a civil war (secularists vs. Christian right?). Iraq really isn't a special case.
Miles