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To: epicure who wrote (236872)	7/18/2007 4:16:07 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Well, isn't Colonialism (for example) at the bottom of the Iraqi conflict? No. The Iraqi conflict stems out of many things, but not the fact that the Ottoman empire and sorta the British were the last colonial-style powers in the land now known as Iraq. 1. Oil. All the various Iraqi groups want to control it, so they can be wealthy without having to work. 2. Sunni-Shia split. It's not the colonist's fault that Islam doesn't have a Pope to settle inter-religious feuds. Your average colonist couldn't tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shia and a Druze, much less a Copt or a stinkin' Hashemite! 3. Suicide bombers. Colonists didn't create these looneys. No Arab in the entire world predicted that Iraqis would blow up other Iraqis in the market following the removal of Saddam. This completely unexpected phenomena aint got nothing to do with colonial powers of 80+ years ago. Iraqis may be a tribal society that doesn't feel much kinship with their neighbor tribe, but that's not a colonist's fault. It's their fault, if it's a fault.

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