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Originally Posted by WI wide body
So what we are effectlvely doing is calming Iraq by using the very same people that Saddam used to control Iraq during his evil and despotic regime!
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Yes, the difference being that we are not subjugating the Sheites and Kurds to a cruel despotic will while we are salving the wounds incurred by the heretofore in power minority Sunnis.
Meanwhile, the Sheites, surely relieved that the Sunnis are for the moment pacified, placated (so we'd like to think) and cooperating with Petraeus (smartly, to save their own skins - hey, let the Americans keep us safe for now!) have shown absolutely no compromise in terms of living and cooperating with another Muslim faction, the Sunni, who hold ireconcileably different beliefs, which beliefs have been the crux of the problem between Sunnis and Sheites for centuries and is not going to be resolved by an infidel show of force (that's us folks) trying to force them to accept oneanother's differences and cooperate in building a democratic nation in which all will peacefully coexist.
And then we have the Kurds, who'd really rather have nothing at all to do with the Sunnis and Sheites. They see themselves as seperate as well, the difference being that they don't want to enter into that argument, they just want their own state!
Ho, ho! Enter the Turks, whose heavily Kurdish populated eastern region is threatened and the game is further complicated.
In the meantime the elected government back in Baghdad is - hmmm...
what exactly
is the elected "government" doing? We hear little of any progress they are making in bringing the three factions together into a body that can effectively secure the country's borders and deal with the needs to satisfy and convince all three factions that each is as important as the other and that all are what make up the country of Iraq.
Ahh...never mind...