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To: Bruce L who wrote (22843)	2/10/2005 7:16:12 AM
From: bull_derrick	Respond to of 23153

Bruce, I think you can look at Chechnya to answer your question. It may not be 110 degrees there but it shows the effect of a totally disenfranchised (I hate that word because I think of my dear brother Jesse using it but the word fits) population group in a quasi-independent region. The conflict there has been going for many years and the insurgents have no problems killing elementary kids in schools and people in theaters in the territory of the enemy. Desperate people do desperate things. To answer your question, if the basic living standards of the Sunnis are not brought back eventually to a "normal" state and Sunnis don't feel that they have any say in their abnormal state, I believe the answer is until the last Sunni is killed. I think it would be far easier for the Shias to include the Sunni areas in heavy restoration/employments schemes, etc, to calm down the majority of the population and continue to pursue the insurgents which hopefully will be a thin minority plus foreign fighters.