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To: goldworldnet who wrote (659385)	11/10/2004 5:43:35 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Agreed.... (But one doesn't always get what you want.) It's also possible that --- despite what we 'want' --- in the long run a Shiite dominated government, controlled by religious leaders (& quite likely closely associated with Iran's government) would actually accelerate a 'reformation' in Islam... and a transformation in the Middle East. (Albeit: not by design.) It's quite likely that Shiite domination of 'Iraq's' government would be fiercely opposed by the minority Sunnis --- with increasing levels of financial and military support from bordering Sunni dominated nations such as Syria and Saudi Arabia. Either an 'open' civil war, or at least a simmering active resistance, could result in the partition of Iraq into Sunni/Shiite/Kurdish nations. All the Sunni/Shiia conflict (which we would be wise to stay out of the middle of) could accelerate the necessary transformation of the regions corrupt and backward-looking regimes.