I agree, at least in principle: History is fluid, not static, and without a certain disrespect for status quo, international politics becomes empty diplomacy, a media word game with fixed players and unwritten rules. For the United States to destabilize an entire region, reshuffling the cards for a houndred million people, violates all of these rules, and the other players won't hear of it. Now, I am not an expert on the Middle East, and do not know enough about the governments and histories of these countries to say what effects a defeat of Iraq will have on them. But I suspect it can't make things much worse. I won't urge the Americans on to a war they will pay for with money and blood, and I will watch safely from a neutral country, (allied mostly on paper), but if they do decide it's worth it, I will respect that decision.

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