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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (176926)12/5/2005 8:01:28 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You should listen to folks like Biden, Lieberman and McCain who take tougher stands than the whitehouse. Biden just finished up on IMUS and his analysis is right on and you would agree with most of it if you would listen to the messenger with an open mind.
1. Next three months crucial from election to final constitution.
2. If the election and constitution are not inclusive enough to engage the sunni, full scale civil war breaks out
3. All regional powers--US, Iran, Turkey, GB, France, Russia, all have interest in no civil war because that could morph into a regional war which could engulf the area and set back our FP (and that of others) for a generation.
4. MY ADD No one has an interest in aiding the growth of al quaeda in the region. Too many americans too quickly lump ayotollahs with wahabis. Both are terrorists indeed but the iranian version is not part of a world wide movement trying to overthrow the west. Its aims are far more limited and regional. The wahabis would love to kill all the infidel shiaa ayotolahs at the appropriate moment so they are the enemy of al quaeda too, even though they engage when interest seem to coicide.. When we have common national/regional interests we should engage with them with the lt hope that they will modify some of their more violent lt postions. Even if they dont, it is my belief that the iranian people will eventually boot out the mad mullahs.
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