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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sam who wrote (241758)9/14/2007 10:55:55 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Ajamis are a new take for me as well. I respect him so i have to take into consideration. The character studies in the article differ greatly from what i was thinking. Mideast very complicated place and iraq historically is at center of all the mideast struggles save the one with the jews.
So do you think iran is a strawman? Is what they are doing defensive or offensive?
I remember the old USSR and when i was back in grad school studying this stuff it was always whether they were more intereted in spreading communism or building buffer zones to protect themselves from attack. Same with china in its dealings with southeast asia. Iran torn between expansion of shiaa calipatism and protecting themselves from US, Israel, sunnis, particularly the bin laden sunnis.
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