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To: Road Walker who wrote (326267)	2/17/2007 6:47:52 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575422

Oh, I doubt it'll die down. I think Sunni and Shia in Iraq were peaceful only because Sunnis ruled and Shias and Kurds were killed if they protested. Now that no one is in charge, Iran stoked the fires of civil war on the Shia side and the disgruntled Sunnis were happy to oblige. Now it'll go on, like you said, for a long long time, just like in Palestine. The best thing we could do is get our fat noses out of there and out to sea. We can be in the area without actually occupying the country. I'm all for air and sea power to kick ass when someone attacks us. No need to occupy. Rebuilding is over rated and not worth it when the indigenous people don't know how to live in peace or govern themselves properly. Germany and Japan were not analogous in that they were not prone to civil war and they were both disciplined in their self-government. So rebuilding made sense there. In the Middle East, screw it. Let's get out of there and let them rot.