interesting article on this in Newsweek a few weeks ago. The gist of it was that the current government feels there is no problem... kill enough Shia and the problem goes away. Both sides of the Sunni - Shia divide get poitical mileage out of denouncing Americans, but rely on us to keep order. The only way out is to get them to sign on to some sort of accord *now* as our credibility ther eis slipping fast
I thought the article was quite thoughtful and well-thought-out. On 1/6/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tBone wrote: > > I'm saying, arrest anyone stirring sectarian or anti American violence. > > How are you possibly going to do that? And even if you do, you just breed > more: > > 1.) Arrest a Sunni and "Americans support the Shiites!" > 2.) Arrest a Shiite and "Americans support the Sunnis!" > > And arresting them both doesn't help because then we just arrest the > [partisan] to PRETEND like we're not taking sides but we really are > because ... > > Like I said, if you want to totally lock down the country - which is > the only way you're going to stop the violence: curfews, door-to-door > searches, etc - is to have 1,000,000+ troops for at least 20 years. > > That's not going to happen, so it's game over. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224081 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
