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To: DizzyG who wrote (694013)7/26/2005 10:35:56 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
You are welcome, Diz, but I think that 'psychological profiles' are pretty much irrelevant in light of the rapidly 'hotting-up' Sunni/Shi'a civil war in Iraq.

(And, even if you are *only* talking about 'terrorists in the West', a very small subset of the problem, even in that regard I'd argue that removing ourselves from the middle of the Iraqi civil war --- and letting the Saudi-backed Sunni combatants vie with the Iran-backed Shi'a without offering ourselves as a target for both sides --- would be very likely to produce salutory benefits for us.... Not just in the region, but globally as well. Extremists would be turned against each other, rather then against us... the perceived 'Colonialist interloper'.)



To: DizzyG who wrote (694013)7/26/2005 10:38:05 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Crumbling Iraq: Is the Country Heading for Civil War?

From the outside, it seems like chaotic violence. But it's worse than that. In Iraq, Sunni Muslim suicide commandos are launching bloodbaths among the Shiites, gradually edging the country toward civil war. Instead of becoming a democratic beacon for the entire region, Iraq is on the verge of disintegrating.

service.spiegel.de