Missing Saddam Hussein, Badly

REMEMBER SADDAM HUSSEIN? Those of a certain age surely will. Ruggedly handsome guy, with a penchant for discharging rifles during formal speeches, author of the scaled down, simplified-for-your-convenience, one candidate per ballot electoral system. In a word, a helluva guy. And give credit where credit is due; Saddam Hussein hated islamic jihadist terrorist groups, and he knew exactly how to defang them: round 'em up, string 'em up. The fact that he did this only for the consolidation of his own power does not alter the fact that under Saddam, extremist Islamic terrorist groups had not a chance. Saddam wasn't too terribly gung go about religions of any sort; he preferred to dress in secular, formal western attire, after the fashion of an all-business modern secular ruler, which he was. But he knoew handle to handle groups like I.S.S. and Al Qaeda. Where is Saddam when we need him the most! Oh, the things we Americans could learn from that man, such as how to apprehend criminals. And how well organized, efficient, and stable was Iraq under the rule of Saddam I, the great all powerful king. The dirty little secret, of course, is that the best form of government is a dictatorship, a benevolent dictatorship, the key word being "benevolent", which, most assuredly, Saddam was not. Oh well, you can't have everything! Back in the days of Saddam Hussein, there was no, or practically no extremist Islamic terrorism, no I.S.I.S. or Al Qaeda, no Islamic State of iraq and Syria and north Africa and God knows where else, and, best of all, there was a world trade center, the original version. And, of course, there were several thousand American teenagers who have since died in combat in wars engineered by the United States of America, corporate office.