| | Ed, if you attack and destroy the country's regime, you can leave it in anarchy or stay and fix it up so that it becomes an ally, rather than another enemy in a few years.
What's preventing it becoming an enemy? When the US trained the Taliban they didn't seem to have much consideration of them becoming an enemy, and I'm not sure they have much consideration now. Iraq seems to be heading towards becoming an Islamic State, in which case, it's going to be an enemy. Perhaps leaving it in a state of anarchy would be the better option - when they are fighting amongst themselves they have no time to fight us.
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