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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: DavesM who wrote (163381)6/1/2005 10:55:28 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>>Sorry, I can hardly see how a (Saudi, Jordanian, Syrian and other) Sunni extremist blowing up Kurd or Shiite Iraqis, is any way like: "the French Resistance killing Frenchmen who collaborated with Nazis". I think we'd both agree that it's more like: The Klan lynching Blacks after the Civil War and Reconstruction. It would as if a bunch of Canadians had crossed into the South after the Civil War and started blowing up Black Schools and Churches - and killing Union Soldiers. <<<

The analogy with the French Resistance is certainly a lot more apt than any of those suggestions. One might also compare Iraq (very loosely) with the former situation in Northern Ireland. There you had an external occupying force (British paratroopers) trying to intervene in sectarian strife between two Christian groups, and being viewed as favoring the Protestants over the Catholics. In Iraq, you have the U.S. troops intervening and seeming to favor the Shiites over the Sunis, both Muslim faiths, and constant reprisals being made against the "collaborating" Shiites, somewhat the way that the IRA would murder Protestant "collaborators." But the situation in Iraq is much worse.

It would be interesting to know how many of the U. S. troops in Iraq have even a basic understanding of what they have got mixed up in.
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