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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (756742)	1/3/2007 10:46:01 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

[They had better hunker down and watch their own asses in the mega-regional, inter-Islamic civil war that's coming. Or they will have their asses shot or blown off by a neighbor] "This has not happened. their neighbors are cowered under by these extremist nut jobs..." No kidding! (But I believe you are not seeing the forest for focusing on a couple of trees here.... The major NATIONS in the region have plenty of reasons to involve themselves in a war. It's the 'nut-jobs' (presume you mean religious extremists, terrorist organizations, sect militias, extra-governmental actors, etc.) who are being employed in an effort to achieve political goals of the major state actors here... the 'dog' is still 'wagging the tail', NOT the other way around. Still, with Uncle sucker standing in the middle of a civil war, taking pot shots from BOTH sides, and being used by both sides as an EXCUSE to blame all their own failings upon... it's no wonder that a full-strength regional inter-Islamic war hasn't broken out YET. But, no matter how long we stay interposed in the region, no matter how many Trillions of American taxpayer's dollars we pour down the drain, no matter how much of our own blood that we spill... all the can do is temporarily keep the contest running at a lower simmer then logic dictates it otherwise would be at. All we can do is DELAY the inevitable regional war that will be necessary for the region to clarify the long-unsettled Shia/Sunni competition, and the power politics competition between Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf Sunnis, and the Shia of Iran and Iraq. It would be far better to remove our unnecessary and unhelpful 'blocking position' and then allow the region to come to the 'full boil' that will produce a QUICKER, and more useful resolution. (Saudi Arabia has already threatened to provide full backing to the minority Sunni insurgents... and the Iraqi Shia have already signed a defense pact with Iran... so the lines are forming up pretty clearly.)