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To: jlallen who wrote (155581)	1/8/2005 12:14:48 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Afganistan has been largely successful. Iraq has not. I am watching Tony Snow on Fox right now and he quotes an american general who believes there will be "spectacular" attacks on or before election day. Arabs are different than afgans, persians and other moslems. The shiaa sunni split makes reconciliation almost impossible. Sunnis wont allow themselves to be ruled by shiaa and visa versa. Kurds wont allow shiaa arabs or sunni arabs to rule them. In afganistan their version of the kurds the Northern Alliance was able to win with our support. The Kurds can win border skirimishes but have no influence in iraq proper. We need to wake up and reevaluate facts on the ground even if they fly in the face of once shared but now stupid assumptions. Powell said "if we break it we own it." I say if we break it, we do our best not to destroy it and if pulling back is called for, so be it. We still have a chance for a relatively benign shiaa islamic state in the South and a robust democracy in the North. We have freed two peoples from saddams rule and given the third component something to fight for. If they dont fight for it, they will deserve what they get and we shouldnt beat our breasts feeling sorry for them, for we tried to do our best. Mike