JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...


"The civil war is already well along. We have no way of knowing if it's
too late until we try a radically different course," said Diamond, an
expert on building democracies who is at Stanford University's Hoover
Institution and is a former adviser to the Coalition Provisional
Authority in Iraq.

How does one become an expert at something that's rarely achieved? :-)

Don't know, but he seems to know what he's talking about. Iraq is going
downhill FAST. How many died yesterday? How many the day before? What
Bush and his henchmen are doing is idiotic at best, criminal at worst.