The Christian Science Monitor reviews past military interventions by the U.S. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein would be the most ambitious regime change the U.S. has tried to force by far. The Monitor also asks, Is it too late for a popular uprising in Iraq? One expert says it is: “People know the price of joining any open defiance. Getting together to try to overthrow the regime would be seen as suicide.”
Also: ingredients for successful popular revolutions and the Western contribution to toppling Slobodan Milosevic.