Iraq's Biggest Test

If you want to govern, the first thing you have to do is make life safe for people to go to work. I'm beginning to think that even a democratic regime with groups like the those who kill American soldiers to torture and mutilate or who don fake police uniforms to kidnap their fellow Iraqis, may have to have do something that will horrify the phoney human rights purists to protect the common people. No ethnic, religious sect, political party can be allowed to resort to violence, period. That is the first rule of self-government. Unless people see life as better and safer under your rule, you can forget their political support. That is one of the reasons that separation of religious sects from political power is essential. You have to reject all religions that promote hatred, intolerance and power, and put them down brutally if necessary, or your constitution means almost nothing.