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To: Elroy who wrote (208855)	10/27/2004 3:51:38 AM
From: beach_bum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574386

"It's really, really hard to understand." I think the problem is we are very certain and how interactions ought to be. We take our western experience of our relationships and interactions and try to apply it to different cultures and then we are taken aback, when they interact differently. Their alliances seem to very dynamic and is based on lot more factors than just the nation. There's language, family, caste, tribe, religion, cleric, nation, etc etc. In addition, there is decade long family rivalry, where killing for revenge in an honor. Specific to our war, there are just so many factions, each with their own agenda just in Iraq. Add to that, others pouring in from all over with their jihadist agenda. I remember reading one of the interview by saddam from several year ago, where hs was trying to justify his dictatorship, saying that it was the only way to keep all the factions together under a common roof with a common agenda. What is a little surprising that UK is not guiding us. Their experience and knowledge about the dynamics in the middle east from colonial times should be helping us a lot more than the situation we have now. This is a tough war, in that it is so ambiguous. Imagine being a soldier, trying to sort all this out, when we cant even speak the language. Bum.