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To: tejek who wrote (136835)	9/3/2013 9:09:34 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I consider Shia and Sunnie different tribes. Do they not live together and believe in the same god? That is a tribe. The Jews are a tribe. I consider Alawite a subtribe of shia and Coptic Christians a sub tribe of Christians. The Christians are a tribe. What news reports say is that all the tribes are coming together. People are picking sides. The ME is going up in flames from full blown tribal civil war and they will fight for ideology, land and resources. Nothing we can do but help where we can, but we must not do a lot of fighting except defensively. And we are going to need to deal with Putin.

To: tejek who wrote (136835)	9/4/2013 12:43:09 PM
From: Neil H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

The only country with tribes are the desert countries of Libya and Saudi Arabia. This statement is not true. Koan was somewhat right for once. Most all the ME countries have a tribal base. There are also tribes in Yemen, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and most of the N Africa countries. There are also religious differences in most of them (Sunni and Shia the main but also Christians, Alawites and Druze and even a handful of Jews). Throw in some ethnic to boot in Syria as you have Kurds and Armenians. Finally throw in foreign powers with interests in Syria and the region and you get a hodgepodge of competing interests. It all comes down to power though as in Syria you have a minority in power(Alawites/shia/) backed by Russia, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran vs the majority Sunni backed by the Gulf states. From my perspective we should stay out of this civil war. Neither side is our friend. Our meddling in the ME has not worked out to date and I see this as another no win situation with minimal US interests at stake. Blessings Neil