Flutterby™! : Still more warblogging

Makes perfect sense now that someone else has said it: Michael Totten linked to Daniel Drezner: Why the Baathist resistance may be a good thing. As the fight begins to go house-to-house, one of the quetions that arises is "how do we know when we're done". After all, the big problem with regime change is changing the hearts and minds of the people so that they won't tolerate such a government again. Well, that and arming them effectively so that they have the tools to resist such a government, but that's a mixed bag.

So, basically, the more of the undesirables who pop up waving weapons and saying that they're not likely to be part of a free and open government, the easier time reconstruction will have later.