Will the Ba'ath Rise Again Through Another Window?

A number of questions have begun to circulate quietly in Iraq, but they are becoming increasingly prominent in political circles and cyberspace: Are we witnessing a reproduction of an experience Iraq underwent after the 1968 coup, but with new names and different ideologies? Can the cycle of a young generation’s rise to power, followed by the ousting of the old guard, and then entry into internal conflicts that lead the state into the unknown, repeat itself? …