So, Just How Bad Is It in Iraq? as per Christian Science Monitor

We can spend 100 years there but nothing short of installing an iron-fisted dictatorship is going to keep the sectarian violence under control.
This article is about a specific region, Nineveh/Mosul


I also reject the idea that Iraq is full of savage beasts who can't be trusted with a representative government. We may not being doing it right, but it's not that it "can't be done". They're certainly capable of having a peaceful democracy under the right conditions.