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Originally posted by piker
The partial elections is just a way to get elections there as soon as possible in hopes that it will settle the situation... I only hope it works...
Hrm, I heard between 2-5k, it seems if they had 10-22k they could actually do better then car bombs..
Where I think you really are wrong here... is when you think this war is muslims against americans.... This is actually more about Sunni's and Kurds and Bathist... they all want complete power... the extremist anyways... they see america as a roadblock in the way of power.. what better way to get rid of the americans then to terror them out... they terrored out the spanish.. and a few others... so it seems to work for them...
But I dont totally disagree radical muslims have a lot of propaganda against us and blame us for most of their problems...
I dont think ignoring them is the answer however... we need their resources too much for that... if the us economy was dependent on oil I'd say that would be a possiblity.. but it simply is... and we have no choice but to do business with them...
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Oh, believe me, there is nothing I hope for more than peace over there. My brother-in-law leaves in January 10 days after the due date of my niece.
People are not just doing carbombs and the attacks on american have increased dramatically in the past few months.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/storie...09/28/251.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/24888.html
http://www.independent-media.tv/item...r%20Rep orted
See I agree with you on your last point. It isn't only muslims vs americans. That is the really interesting dynamic. It has that on the surface, but it also has all the subplots of civil war erupting and groups of people who have never gotten along throughout history also fighting each other.
I never said we should ignore them. That would be dumb. As Colin Powell is attributed (and paraphrasing a bit) "You break it, you buy it." We can't just pull out. We fucked that country up and its our responsibility to fix it, not only for their sakes, but for our own. I don't see much being fixed if we "stay the course" when the course obviously isn't working very well.