Read this: http://www.bigpharaoh.com/2006/05/12/ali-and-my-ignorance/
It's very much what I tried to tell people back when it all started, and everyone said I was ignorant then, too. You cannot ignore history. You can't remake a culture just because you want to. Unlike, say, Egypt or Saudi Arabia, Iraq is in large part still a tribal culture. You have what you have won and what you are strong enough to keep. There are certain ways that things have been done, that disputes have been settled, for thousands of years, and they aren't going to change overnight.
The Americans pulled the cork. They let the genie out of the bottle, and he's not going back in until someone comes along strong enough to pound a few heads and threaten to remove a few more.
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