Here. But these are the growing pains of any new nation based on the rule of the people.

I remember the many difficulties America had when developing its Constitution, ironing out the differences in all the factions. Imagine what it would have been like had the different states had a history of deadly warfare against the other ones, instead of being largely peaceful.

If Iraq winds up at least as stable and democratic as Turkey, it will be one of the great miracles of the modern world.

I suspect that there will always be a low-grade terror problem there, even after the Iraqis have their own government and the coalition is largely gone. Something like Israel.