Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/09/07 16:45, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>> I'd think that someone in the military would at least be aware
>>>> of concerns that the current situation may lead to a broader regional
>>>> conflict between Sunni and Shia. It has certainly affected the balance
>>>> of power in the region, with Iran being the big winner to date.
>>> Would the Sunni/Shia conflict have come anyway, whenever Saddam died?
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>> Very probably. Better question: Would we be paying trillions of dollars
>> to make it happen and get blamed for destabilizing the region when Saddam
>> died left to his own devices?
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> Have no fear. We'd have wasted the money on something else, and
> been blamed by non-Republicans and the rest of the world for
> something else.
The Republicans do a good job hanging themselves without anybody else's
help. They very well may have committed political suicide and doomed
themselves to obscurity in Oregon as of yesterday.
http://www.katu.com/news/politics/6388437.html
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