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To: Lane3 who wrote (84295)9/14/2008 9:47:19 AM
From: Sam  Respond to of 540950
 
Who does he think Track Palin is fighting against in Iraq? Iraq? No, Iraq is not the enemy. Iraq is our partner.

Who do you think Track will be fighting against? Al Qaeda in Iraq is toast. The problems that Iraq will have in the future will be between different Iraqi factions. Not just Sunni v Shia v Kurd. But Sunni v Sunni v Shia v Shia v Shia v Kurd v Kurd and likely more. With Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the US, China, Russia and who knows else in the mix in various ways.

The situation is so complicated now that it is impossible to intelligibly unravel it, IMO. Although my own personal view is that right now Iran has the upper hand since they, from what I can see, seem to pretty much control the two main Shia factions.



To: Lane3 who wrote (84295)9/14/2008 10:37:47 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540950
 
Who does he think Track Palin is fighting against in Iraq? Iraq? No, Iraq is not the enemy. Iraq is our partner.

"Iraq" is a multitude, I'm tempted to say, of "sins". But it's even, of course, much more complicated than that.

My own present take is that we are in some sort of police action in Iraq now. Hard to use the term "enemies" in that.