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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (95506)4/22/2003 11:16:19 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

our crowd are smart, tough, people, not starry eyed types

I'm not so sure of that either. After the Shiite demonstrations in Najaf and Baghdad, I saw quite a few comments to the effect that we are seeing the emergence of a new pluralism, and that this was a sign of democracy in action. This reaction to a crowd of Muslim fundamentalists, many of them armed, chanting "not to Saddam, no to America" seems as starry eyed as anything you'd hear from a card-carrying liberal.

I recall commenting that despite all the talk of Iraq being secular, we really have no way of knowing how secularized the Shiites are, since their religious expression has been so thoroughly suppressed.

Read this and tell me you don't see trouble coming from this quarter:

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