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To: Road Walker who wrote (280605)	3/17/2006 11:47:57 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571076

I agree with this... "So getting out of Iraq would be a good anti-Iran strategy. Succeeding in Iraq would be even better." It's a strange essay, full of superficial observations. it's almost like mindmeld wrote it...so it's worse for iran to have a weakened iraq in turmoil and even worse to have one as a democracy dominated by theocrats, in both cases with saddam gone, an unpredictable man who started a destructive all out war against them? I struggle with the logic. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (280605)	3/18/2006 6:33:34 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571076

The perspective that I found interesting was the Arab/Persian part. Does that animosity trump the Iran Shiite/Iraq Shiite relationship between Iran and southern Iraq? Maybe it does; I don't know. I didn't want to say anything before but I was surprised when he made that observation. As as I understand it, its the Sunni Arabs and the Persians who don't get along that well. In thruth, I think the Sunnis despise the Shia more than they do the Persians, or at a minimum, they despise them equally. The Arab Shia I think are more motivated by keeping their independence as Iraqis and deciding their own fate than they are by the fact the Iranians are Persian. ted