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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (313189)12/4/2006 2:29:56 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572627
 
re: Personally, I think Balkanization is the only way things will work in Iraq. History has shown that when Balkanization is in the air, the only thing that stops it is a strong dictator and iron control. If you get them on the ground with your boot on their neck and a gun at their head, then you can hold them together. Slack just the slightest, and they are at each other's throat.

So we need another Saddam

......or maybe Iraq was never meant to be one nation but rather three. The Brits aren't very good at nation building either.

Tonite I was listening to some commentary from a major in Iraq. When he and his squad take Iraqi troops out on patrol......the Shia Iraqi soldiers are the most aggressive and the most ambitious when they are dealing with Sunni insurgents; the Sunni Iraqi soldiers most aggressive and ambitious when they come across Shia militia. Iraq's religious differences are even more pronounced than America's racial divisions.
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