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Originally posted by bilmore
You are the prototypical NYT "perfect reader."
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Yer right. That was cheap. We did lliberate them. But I don't have any faith in Iraq ever coming together into anything useful. Getting those people together has historically been like organizing cats. Iraq is a cobbled together conglomeration of disparate tribes and cultures with very different goals, except one - dominating one another. The British created Iraq's borders, and those dumb bastards have brought us Pakistan and Israel also. The only thing the British do worse than borders is cars. Iraq's borders are all arbitrarily chosen. They don't fit the natural cultural borders. Hussein held it together. Without him, or another strongman or puppet govt like it had pre-Hussein, Iraq is just a mass of jackass tribes looking for themselves. I hope we can fix it, but I wouldn't lay money on us doing so...
