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To: tejek who wrote (136831)	9/3/2013 12:54:26 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 149317

You are kidding right? And you cannot discern between tribal and religious loyalties. It doesn't matter what you call it. Tell me which country in the ME my broad brush paints incorrectly and tribal loyalties are not so important.? Iran, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordon, Turkey, Afghanistan. Name one. Tribal loyalties run strong in every one of those countries and millions of people are moving around trying to find their tribes and peace. Millions in Iraq when to other countries. Egypt is in a full blown civil war between Islamists and the secular folks and the Islamists are killing the non Islamists. PS Syria has many different tribes and they are all killing each other. <<You're painting the ME with a very broad brush. The tribal loyalties are mostly in Libya and Western Africa; not Syria. In Syria its more to do with religious differences but that's the subtext. The main issue is that al-Assad is a tyrant who does not want to relinquish his power.........a thesis as old as human civilization. And he is willing to kill hundreds of thousands of Syrians and torture thousands more to keep that power. The simple question I think Americans need to ask themselves......do we care?

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