Iraq doesn't have a chance

Good-bye, finally, to Iraq's cities
Will the American lives and treasury spent to prop up and legitimize the Iraqi government prove to have been a good investment? I am pessimistic, seeing Iraq as a historically violent country yet emerging from the Stalinist nightmare of Saddam Hussein, a place replete with corruption, tension, hatred and desire for revenge. Having American troops around for six years temporarily contained the pressures but will barely ameliorate the country's fate.

Isaiah 13:
¹⁷ See, I will stir up against them the Medes [today's Iran],
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.

¹⁸ Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants
nor will they look with compassion on children.

¹⁹ Babylon [today's Iraq], the jewel of kingdoms,
the glory of the Babylonians' pride,
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰ She will never be inhabited
or lived in through all generations;
no Arab will pitch his tent there,
no shepherd will rest his flocks there.