Agreed, but that prolem will solve itself when we take away
the Russian Roulette game *and* give them middle-class
professions that they can work at, staying in Iraq.

What do you see that suggests that the culture is capable of
maintaining a social enviornment of this sort? They've had freedom to
do what they wish for two or three generations at very least, and
things do not appear to have progressed to the point where a middle
class seems significant?

My feeling is that America and the West needs to turn Saddam over to
the current government, and leave. I do not see it as a good thing
that Iraq be created to be another American welfare state; that will
enahnce their anger as they realize they can do nothing without the
help of the infidel. Let them decide what they want as a state, and
let them do it with a minimum of outside assistance.

Is there a significant boating population there? If not, why are we
even thinking about them?