WAR ON IRAK

Swissinfo: “Democracy in Iraq will take up to 30 years”
The United States has neither the will nor the ability to bring democracy to Iraq, according to Middle East specialist Arnold Hottinger.
And he warns that if the war is a bloody and protracted one, unrest could spread to neighbouring countries.

Hottinger is a Swiss journalist, acknowledged as one of the country’s foremost experts on Middle East affairs.

He has travelled extensively around the region, making his name as a correspondent for the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and Swiss radio.

He told swissinfo that the war in Iraq could be over very quickly - within a week at the earliest. But he added it could drag out for as long as a month.