I suspect that this is what they are in the process of doing right now. It's ugly, and I expect it will get uglier before it's done. It's also not in our control. I don't know that it ever was.
Gen Petraeus asked in 2003 "tell me how this ends". I guess we're finding out... and I suspect that once we selected "installing Democracy" as an objective, this ending, or some variation on the theme, was pretty much inevitable.
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