iraq and authority dependency

Basically, after a generation of totalitarian rule (or more) the Iraqis didn't know how to control themselves. The Sunnis were spoiled, were used to controlling more than their share, and reacted with anger to Saddam's fall. The Shiites were used to controlling less than their share, and expected to be treated like victims, ie, pitied and taken care of. Only the Kurds had the Goldilocks formula, just right amount of control; they seem to have responded healthily to their 1/2 a generation of semi-independence.

The Arab Iraqis (non-Kurds, non-Turkomen, etc) were, in one fashion or another, dependent on authority, on big daddy.

An addict should have known that this's the case. A recovering addict should have, at least. Should have eased Iraq's role-seeking youths out of a control dependency (onto another perhaps). Should have left more authority in tact, or sent in more to take up place in the power vacuum. Bush's a dry drunk though. Didn't know Iraq needed an active sponsor, 'cause he never had one himself.