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To: goldworldnet who wrote (6977)	8/6/2007 7:22:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"...I’m hoping for the best in the Middle East, but there’s no getting around the fact that they have a completely different culture and what we are doing is an experiment." I, too, always 'hope for the best', but prefer to NOT ignore reality, and NOT ignore cost/performance (when dealing with debts placed upon the backs of Americans and their children yet unborn...). And, the word I would use is not the innocuous-sounding one of 'experiment', but rather 'ridiculous and obscene DISASTER'. 'Treasonous' even.... ====================================================== I don't know why people have such difficulty understanding the blatantly obvious. Facts that are staring them right in their faces. The fairly narrow (60% of the population, or so...) Shiite majority in 'Iraq' --- after literally CENTURIES of repression and disenfranchisement --- hold the 'whip hand' now and they AIN'T gonna give it up voluntarily. They have NO INCLINATION to give up or compromise their control now that they are finally on top. (And, we are the ones who put them on top, and thus enhanced Iran's regional power....) This DESPITE whatever necessary and politic lies they may utter to keep the money train running from Uncle Sammy for as long as possible. The KURDS, similarly, are intent on a free-standing new Kurdish nation --- and the Hell with whatever the Arabs or Turks or Persians may want that conflicts with that goal. The Sunni Arabs being marginalized in Iraq, squeezed out between the Shiites and the Kurds, will fight viciously for as long as is necessary (supported by nearly 'unlimited' amounts of funding and resupply from Saudi Arabia and fellow Sunnis in Gulf States who also fear that their own numerous and downtrodden Shiite minorities might gain a measure of political power) until some kind of clear demarcation separates and protects their interests and lands from those of Shiites and Kurds. These are the simple current and historical facts that must be acknowledged. (Now WHY whole gobs of Americans would willingly prefer to be deluded, and swallow some counter-factual 'neo-con' vision of a fantasy land that doesn't exist... instead of the world as it actually is, will have to go down as one of the great mysteries of mass psychology for the future to solve, but the mystery is beyond my understanding....) Message 23767789