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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Neil H who wrote (136899)9/4/2013 7:09:43 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
he only country with tribes are the desert countries of Libya and Saudi Arabia.

This statement is not true. Koan was somewhat right for once.

Most all the ME countries have a tribal base.

I was talking currently..........not in the distant past.

There are also tribes in Yemen, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and most of the N Africa countries.

Not to the demean the emirates but I was talking the bigger players.......and maybe there were tribes in Syria and Iraq sometime back in antiquity but not today.

There are also religious differences in most of them (Sunni and Shia the main but also Christians, Alawites and Druze and even a handful of Jews). Throw in some ethnic to boot in Syria as you have Kurds and Armenians. Finally throw in foreign powers with interests in Syria and the region and you get a hodgepodge of competing interests.

There are religious and ethnic differences in many countries including the US.

It all comes down to power though as in Syria you have a minority in power(Alawites/shia/) backed by Russia, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran vs the majority Sunni backed by the Gulf states.

From my perspective we should stay out of this civil war. Neither side is our friend. Our meddling in the ME has not worked out to date and I see this as another no win situation with minimal US interests at stake.

On one level I agree with you but then there are all the people who are getting massacred. That's hard to take.
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