A touch of Middle Eastern history

I read Debkafile just about every day, they are an Israeli team of journalists with pretty high intelligence connections and always have a bird's eye view of what is happening in this area of the world.

I won't comment much on this piece, but to say that although I support our efforts in Iraq to build up a stronger, and might I add friendly aligned country with our interests, Iraq the "democratization of the country" is more than likely doomed to fail, it is a Westerner's concept and not at all keeping with the history of this part of the world where ones family lineage speaks more to the individual than what we understand ourselves.

Hashemite Dynasty Shows the Flag at Gulf of Aqaba

What is the most telling is the need for symbol and of rights of inheritance that are still felt by the principle parties involved and why they motivate so much. They obviously motivate the Al Queda adherent to sacrifice themselves for their ideal. I suppose Democracy and our ideal of freedom motivates our soldiery to keep their faces towards the enemy and apply courage as the insurgency begins to dwindle down.