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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (577)5/21/2007 1:39:04 PM
From: michael97123Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4152
 
Good point so lets play the tribal card. Tribal doesnt always equal islamic fundamentaiist. If we cant compel iran/shiaa iraq to share oil wealth, we should find another way to subsidize sunni tribal leaders. Perhaps a Kurdish/Sunni federal state without the shiaa and with shared oil revs. Makes the turks happy too. Arab states draw a line in the sand against iran.
Kurds are sunnis too. And maybe that sunni-kurd partnership gets to have bagdad as its capital as sadr city folks who are shiaa get forced out. Kurdish militia will beat the shiaa alone. Imagine if iraqi suunis form their own army. Not proposing that, just thinking outloud how it might go.



To: Geoff Altman who wrote (577)5/21/2007 7:58:01 PM
From: kumarRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 4152
 
the ME is tribal in its roots, where clan trumps most other things

There is an old Arabic saying, which loosely translated goes like this :

"Me against my brother, me and my brother against our cousins, my family (me brother & cousins) against the tribe, my tribe against other tribes".


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