re: As as I understand it, its the Sunni Arabs and the Persians who don't get along that well. In thruth, I think the Sunnis despise the Shia more than they do the Persians, or at a minimum, they despise them equally.
Read what you said... and that's just one very small aspect of this mess. You don't know, I don't know, Bush doesn't know, hell the Iraqi's don't know how this is going to unfold.
Frankly, and as macabre as it is to admit this, it's a fascinating board game. More complex than chess... more moving parts with different capabilities, both military and political, and with hidden and obvious self interest motives, dozens of players. It's so complex, so chaotic, it's mesmerizing.
I know I won't live long enough to see the end of the game... it's going to be generations.
John |
