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To: LindyBill who wrote (325726)	9/23/2009 5:24:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

, but the real putsch here is that the Guards are achieving a hegemony that will make them independently powerful. They simply won't need the illusion of mullah rule. And please, spare me descriptions of how "nutty" and irrational these guys are. This is a mafia-as-ruling-party and little else--not a new beast and certainly not unfathomable. Hardly the engageable and connectable government Barnett was talking about a few months ago. And let's suppose they are a ruling mafia. They are illegitimate with a narrow power base. They need a war even more than if they were trying to bring on Argmageddon.