Dictatorship in Iraq

A major Iraqi newspaper, Al Rafidayn, has published an editorial suggesting "Iraq could only solve its problem by creating a military leader establishing a dictatorship."

This isn't especially surprising, but the reaction from the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies, an Iraqi think tank (think tanks: a sign of a burgeoning democracy?) is telling. IISS head Falih Abdul Jabar writes that a dictatorship "would need someone to be stronger than everybody else." Which right now, no one is.

Looks like America's strategy to prevent a resurgent dictatorship is working: give guns to everyone.