It seems an age ago that Paul Bremer made that fateful decison to remove all Baath Party members from Iraq. In doing so he took the rug from under the Iraqi people.
Recovering from war is a tricky thing at the best of times and yet what is certain is that key positions and functions must be kept operational if the transition is to be successful.
This was known in 1945 with regard to Nazi Germany. The Allies knew that if they removed all Nazi members they would be removing the very fabric of German society: school teachers, police officers and fire fighters.
It appears that the provisional authority were not keen historians and did in fact this very thing. Overnight hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police and civil servants were got rid of. Understandably they were a bit peeved and as they say ... the rest is history.
Do we want the same for Syria?
If we get rid of Assad what will happen? How much of the "regime" will need to fall? I'm sure the united opposition would like to get rid of all members of the "party" but this can not happen; we can not allow history to repeat itself. ... someone has to manage the country!
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