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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38374)	11/10/2009 1:17:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "Anarchy." No. War. (As in: "diplomacy by other means". :-) And: religious conflict among two different strains of religious fundamentalists.... And: economic/political conflict over hundreds of Billions in oil wealth.... And: conflict over such concepts as 'self-rule', sense of nationality, 'freedom of religion'.... And: just plain bloody-mindedness! A Sunni/Shia divide runs through the national populations of all of the Gulf communities. And: most of the Saudi's oil production comes from their Gulf region where the local population is majority Shia --- long repressed and denied by the state apparatus of the Sunni Monarchy. That goes a long way to explain why the Saudis are bombing Shiite rebels across the border in Yemen --- they fear that their own Saudi Shiite citizens may take encouragement from the attacks of their Shiite fellows....