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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (10739)	11/18/2001 2:10:48 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Raymond, That was also about the time the British created Northern Ireland. They had to mess big time with that border too. It's been shown clearly to me that this so called "great game" was a real dumb idea. I don't recommend it. good post btw. Message 16641916 Scowcroft assured the interviewer that our policy really just a continuation of the Great Game decision of the British around 1920 to simply create Iraq our of whole cloth, that is to say, there never was any ethnic or historical basis for the nation's founding. It was designed as a wedge between the rather more sinister (in the eyes of the Brits) possibility of the rise of a regional rival to British hegemon. The three nations that are kept at bay by Iraq's presence are Persia, the new Ottoman region and the Damascus Arabs, i.e. Iran, Turkey and Syria.

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