Reply #3: This was bound to happen the day Saddam died [View All]

[Selatius]

He was the glue that held that country together. The British failed to create a stable democracy in Iraq twice. They failed the first time after WW1. They failed the second time after WW2. Only under the authoritarian rule of the Ba'athist Party was Iraq stabilized enough to go for years without civil war.

Unfortunately, when the British carved lines into the sand and called it "Iraq," they, knowingly or unknowingly, threw together several different ethnic/sectarian groups that historically had nothing to do with each other, and they expected them to come together in harmony and become one nation regardless of the past bloody history between these groups?

This is why the British Empire failed twice, and now we're fighting in the same place they once did, trying to do almost exactly the same thing the Empire before us tried to do.