Jesse,
One only needs to look to Iraq's Northern border for a model democratic Muslim nation. Iraq has the double edged sword of Islamism and pan-Arabism to contend with. We'll see. My opinion is that sometimes such things turn out for the better and sometimes not. It's too complicated for anyone to confidently predict.
Regression towards the mean though. The odds that Iraq will end up worse without Saddam than with him is pretty low.
Will we be back to Iraq again? No idea. We'll be back in the Middle East again. Somewhere, sometime. Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Syria. Of course we will.
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