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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The radicals who give us trouble are Sunnis, not Shiites, except for Hezbollah, which gives Israel more trouble than it gives us. The bigger problem with an Iraq run by Shiites is that it would lean toward Iran, not bin Laden.
Apparently you plan an indefinite military occupation. That should work well.
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Putting aside that you're incorrect, and that we are having trouble with both Shiite and Sunni elements, are you really suggesting we up and leave and hand the world's second largest oil reserve to Iran? What about Iran gives you comfort? And worse, what on earth makes you think Al Queda would allow Shiites to run Iraq? The place would be in an endless civil war.
We fucked up. We destabilized an area that could only be controlled by a dictator and now we're stuck with it. Yes, the only option is to keep a large presence there indefinitely. I don't like it either, but that's the shitty mess we're in, and I don't here any serious Plan B from you. Your plan sounds more like a spin of a roullette wheel, or some faith-based conjecture that things would just magically coalesce into a happy stasis in our absence. Isn;t that a lot like Cheney's "faith" we'd be greeted with flowers?
