Sir;.... When the Ottoman Empire began its long decline, the influence of the Harem was marked.... The period is often called the Sultimate of the Harem... Essentially, the long and honorable practice of the eldest surviving son of the Sultan killing off his brothers was ended, and each part kept their candidate to the throne, some times in absolute ignorance, while the parties played power politics... There have been some in the West who have decried the practice of fratricide...There have been some who praised the practice... The people of the East celebrated the practice... Better a bad Sultan than two.... No curse so plagues a people as civil war... And I say that because you do not seem to realize that our parties which have so divided us are the sponsors of a cold civil war.... Will the Nation leave Iraq???. Bold measures are called for, to correct the errors of the past.....They will not happen because politics are such that no one will surrender the advantage for a possible future gain.... If either side could be certain of its support, the support of the majority, then they would be free to invite reason on to the international stage...Well, that day is passed... The parties, which have so often gained and lost by politics has so evenly divided the people, that they are now the prisoners of their pet.... Neither side is free, so the whole people is torn, waiting only for some disaster to sweep both parties aside with civil war...Democrats and republicans are all over; but we are increasingly forming up as we were before the civil war.... We are facing sectional division along party lines.... When whole states should have been remade, and when both parties should have been abandoned for good, we did not, and now suffer consequences we might once have easily avoided....Shall we leave Iraq...If we did, our puppets and our oil companies would not last an afternoon....We must support our animal or our animal will be eaten....And Mr. Obama is not free to leave, because he is the prisoner of politics.... The advantage in politics does not go to defense as in military action; but to offense.... So Mr. Obama must have an impossibly strong defense against the attacks of republicans.... Will he some day bear defeat... Defeat was certain when we beat down their door....But, in a weakened state, to admit defeat, even if true, can be painted as treason... It is better to suffer defeat, even depression than to admit defeat....So much for the presidency of the party... It is the route to decline.... So up the revolution....Tear it down... Thanks....Sweeney