Mort-Hog
If moral relativism is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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No it won't. This might possibly calm some of the opposition to the war in Britain and America, but I don't see any reason why the resistance fighters in Iraq would give up. They're not fighting to get Saddam back in power, they're fighting against the American occupation. Well, actually, some of the resistance fighters may have been Baathist socialists, but I certainly don't think that they constitute a significant majority of the opposition. The other cells that are said to have joined the resistance, (Al Quaeda, Iranian revolutionaries, Syrian fighters) have never supported Hussein in the past, and though they might be temporarily unified now, there's no reason to think that they will give up arms now.
One thing that does puzzle me though is how Hussein gave up without a fight.. I would certainly have imagined that he would have gone down in a blaze of fire; his co-operation was surprising! Perhaps he's clever and realises that if he is executed by the Americans he will made a martyr and will gain more support in death than he ever did alive.. Or perhaps he's just a tired, broken old man.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. " - Bertrand Russell
The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others 1931-1935