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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't think the difference between us lies in our views of the popularity of the anti-democracy forces. Perhaps the glass is half-full, whatever that means. When the Titanic was half-full, it sank. Somehow, the Kurds and Sunnis are going to have to be persuaded to submit themselves to a government dominated by Shi'ites. Somehow, the Shi'ites are going to have be persuaded not to exercise control over the Kurds and Sunnis commensurate with the Shi'ite share of the population. If you want to figure out how likely this is, you have to do more than poll Iraqis about their support for the ideal of democracy.
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Bush won by about - what? - three percent? And yet, he controls what we're doing fairly completely. Is this different than what you warn against? Or are you simply of the mind that Iraqis are too primitive or misguided or religious to put aside those lines of religious demarcation and make one unified country?
