If it is yet undiscovered by Washington, it is bound to be revealed sooner or later: In Iraq, America is not only fighting insurgents remaining from the ousted Baathist regime and some "lunatic" volunteers who supported it, but is also fighting a regional system, which survived passing decades resisting change regardless of its source, goals, and tools. Maybe the relative regional "stability" that the region has come to witness in the past few decades, a stability that is closer to that of graveyards, may be seen as an indicator of the success of the regional Arab system's ability to maintain it in the face of the winds of regional and international change. It is not a secret that the liberation of Kuwait, after the invasion, is an action in the same direction; the change, which Saddam's regime worked for, for its own purposes of course, was thwarted by Americans who wanted to regain the regional system that existed before August 2, 1990.

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If it is yet undiscovered by Washington, it is bound to be revealed sooner or later: In Iraq, America is not only fighting insurgents remaining from the ousted Baathist regime and some "lunatic" volunteers who supported it, but is also fighting a regional system, which survived passing decades resisting change regardless of its source, goals, and tools. Maybe the relative regional "stability" that the region has come to witness in the past few decades, a stability that is closer to that of graveyards, may be seen as an indicator of the success of the regional Arab system's ability to maintain it in the face of the winds of regional and international change. It is not a secret that the liberation of Kuwait, after the invasion, is an action in the same direction; the change, which Saddam's regime worked for, for its own purposes of course, was thwarted by Americans who wanted to regain the regional system that existed before August 2, 1990.

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