I think the absence of a despot at the top is an improvement, but one which is badly obscured by (a) the ham-fisted mismanagement of the whole military campaign until the "awakening", and (b) the presence of a whole slew of lesser despots desperately trying to preserve their despotic spheres against any improvement.


That said, I am completely in agreement about the wisdom of the initial choice made by Bush in launching the invasion; it was a profoundly misguided, unintelligent, misestimated, and immoral step.


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