It's a success! Time to move on...
Matt Yglesias describes how, Michael O'Hanlon from the Brooking's Institute, a middle-east expert and supporter of the war in Iraq, describes his best-case scenario for the country"It would be success to simply not let things get worse, and to simply train Iraqi security forces so that they can take it over in two or three years." Iraqi forces wouldn't be taking over a liberal democracy after that two or three years of continued American warfare. They wouldn't even be taking over an especially stable country. Instead he "hopes we can put this on a trajectory like Lebanon," except without the long years of civil war that proceeded the current state of affairs in that country. In other words, "if we can keep it as one of the two or three most violent places in the Middle East but at least on a long-term trajectory toward stability, that's acceptable."
posted by Matthew @ 9/14/2004 06:30:00 PM
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