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To: neolib who wrote (141)	5/15/2007 2:13:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4152

However, as many like to point out, how we got here is not so much the issue as what to do going forward. So even if it is playing exactly in Al Qaeda's hands, what can we do about it? First, we can try to understand a complicated situation and differentiate the US-AQ fight from sectarian battles, not just declare that it's all a civil war and all hopeless. Then we need a strategy for winning against AQ while deciding whether we try to put a lid on the sectarian fighting, or effectively let the Shia do their ethnic cleansing on the grounds that Iraq can't be stabilized until they do. This latter will lead to a defacto partition of Iraq, but that seems to be what's happening. We can do it if we have staying power. We really need to beat AQ because they will follow us if we don't. Probably if we do as well, but from a much weaker position.