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My guess is that America will maintain a presence where certain areas are basically all American/Western with most Iraqis essentially displaced from those areas. The Iraqis will probably be diced up and spread out into their own ethnic enclaves/territories in an effort to maintain control and keep the peace, or at least to keep conflict away form the American occupied areas.
But this is just a guess. Never know how things are going to unfold. Maybe those entrenched cultural norms really can be transformed along with the entire region becoming an American East and those peoples able to live in relative harmony. Even so, I think it's going to take awhile, compared to say, the very pro-Westernize attitude of the Japanese who recognized the benefits of Western culture early on and created measures to modernize rapidly.
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