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To: goldworldnet who wrote (576089)	5/17/2004 3:41:44 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: If we can't break the hold the clerics have, we are spinning our wheels and without secularizing their culture, there's not much of a chance for a happy resolution. >>> They were probably already the most secular Arab nation while under Saddam. >>> Now that the religious nuts are resurgent, I wouldn't hold out much hope for 'secularizing' their culture... at least, not for a generation or two. >>> As the old saying goes: the Gods curse people by giving them what they ask for. We wanted the dictator gone, and we got what we wanted. As Powell said: now we 'own' the problems. >>> Maybe our best option is to stand by a Kurdish democracy... while getting out of the rest of the place, letting the Shia attack the minority of Sunni --- which will put pressure on the Saudi Sunnis. A religious war in Iraq and the region could, in the long run, turn out to be good for our interests... because the radicals would have other things to fixate on then the US 'occupiers'.