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Yeah, I remember that. Especially Uday is a psychopath and Qusai (sp?) is the "mastermind" diabolical one. Those two were quite the menace and maybe even more dangerous than Saddam was, as I recall.
I guess I was trying to say is perhaps the old mullahs in Iran have protoges etc in the wings or some other similar type of succession scenario so even when they die it doesn't mean all the idealistic pro-democracy students will take over or maybe it will.
You know it's weird with dictatorships cause I always wonder who's in the wings. Could there have been a coup d'etat? Maybe the other Generals or leadership didn't like the sons or something and would plot to "get rid" of the sons.
I also wonder about N. Korea too. They are so mysterious to me. I wonder if there isn't some top level people (especially the ones who have traveled abroad) who know Kim is crazy and might try and overthrow him or something.
I just think it's interesting to look at it from a different angle.
Oh yeah, take Libya. Who's the successor to Qaddafi? Maybe he'll follow similar policy, maybe he'll be more hardline conservative or maybe liberal and open up the country for democracy.
This stuff must keep the CIA and intel people in DC up at night. I mean, could you imagine if N. Korea's military staged a coup and they were hawkish? We know so little of them, who know who the players are?
Iran is definitely fascinating as is Iraq. The next question is: if a "major" movement started happening, would be do something? (i.e. - Iranian students actually start a revolution or N. Korea collapses etc). or will we screw them like we screwed the Kurds?
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