Comments Posted By Tom the Redhunter
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For the most part, the same people who have warned incessantly about civil war are the same ones who told us that tens of thousands of Americans would die in the initial ground assault, that there were be be a cataclysmic "battle of Baghdad" that would tie up our forces for months, that there would be a humanitarian disaster marked by mass starvation, and who always tell us that the elections won't go off as planned.
Not to say that the situation in Iraq, especially in the Sunni triangle, isn't bad. It is. But there is no civil war and probably won't be one.
Rather, as Lee Harris said over at Winds of Change Iraq is on the brink of "tribalist anarchy". I'm now thinking that this is a better term to describe the danger than "civil war", which implies something along the American experience 1860-5 or the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Comment Posted By Tom the Redhunter On 26.02.2006 @ 12:27
