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To: Road Walker who wrote (307488)	10/25/2006 3:10:42 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574557

Part of our problem is that we want this more than they do,” General Thurman told The Times’s Michael Gordon, alluding to American efforts to unify Iraqis. “We need to get people to stop worrying about self and start worrying about Iraq.” Actually very good......and he's right. The Iraqis think in terms of self, not Iraq. And just because we want them to change that doesn't mean they will. The problem is that they have so many social obligations more important to them than national unity. Iraqis bravely went to the polls and waved their purple fingers, but they voted along sectarian lines. Appeals to their religion trumped appeals to the national interest. And as the beleaguered police in Amara saw last week, religion gets trumped by the most important obligation of all: the clan. That's right. The Sunni/Shia disputes go back over a thousand years. They can't stand each other. Iraqis are Middle Easteners, not European-Americans.......they have a very different view of things. It wouldn’t be easy for Iraqis in other regions to work out their differences, but the local leaders would have one crucial advantage over any Iraqis or Americans giving orders from Baghdad. They would realize their neighbors are not going to suddenly embrace national unity. They would know you make peace with the citizenry you have, not the one you want. Hear! Hear!