Yet Syria, and countries like it, will be a problem, and we need a new strategic doctrine in the post-Saddam era to deal with them.

(C) U/S Burns said that after a painful period at the outset of the post-Saddam era, there has been steady improvement in Iraq on several fronts.

Unknown to No One has been given a large amount of publicity in the post-Saddam era.

"In the process, however, we must prepare to coexist with a new Iraq in the post-Saddam era that will be for at least 20 years the scene of much internal strife and settlement of accounts."

The post-Saddam era has not been easy on Iraqi education.

Of those who have been internally displaced in the post-Saddam era, approximately 300,000 have returned home.

The hotel, an obvious and imposing target, was periodically hit with mortar or rocket fire during the early years of the post-Saddam era.

Zarqawi's men reputedly succeeded in assassinating several leading Iraqi politicians of the early post-Saddam era, and their bomb attack on the United Nations mission's headquarters in Iraq led the U.N. country team to relocate to Jordan and continue to work remotely.