Mr. Knows his Middle East history is impressing me!

I can't disagree with you, but the ME has been fraught with all kinds of fundamentalist take overs in the last 30-40 years. Lets see... Egypt had their monarchy overthrown and a very fundamentalist theocracy took over, right? However, they've come a long ways since then. I'm ignorant of most of the other countries governments. Mostly monarchies I think?

You do sort of wonder though, looking at Iran and Egypt, they pretty much reformed themselves. It didn't take America butting in and forcing democracy on them. It isn't perfect, but it sure isn't as bad as Afghanistan was.

What do you think Iraq will do? Personally, I'm worried the Shiites will take over.
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