Re: Now the shiites are joining the fray
I do not have an opinion on whether we should be there or not.The point is that we are there and soon we will be between two groups that hate each other,and the only thing that keeps them from each other's throat is our presence.So they go after our throat.<br />We went in there to remove a danger to the USA.Right now there is a totally different situation. The people who mostly suffered under Sadam's terror have shown their own fanatical hatred for anything western. Can we install a democracy there? Which group can we support? The pro sadam sunnis? The anti American shi-ites? The minority kurds?<br />This question has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative,or pointing fingers at each other.What we need here is some real inventive thought.Right now we are in a pickle.<br /><br />Flyrod,The reason why the six day war ended at the Suez Canal was because Israel did not want to control huge arab population centers.I often think that, in the first Gulf war, Bush the elder made the same decision for that very reason.<br />Rabbit,you asked a "mildly controversial question" a few threads ago.The answer is that during the yom kippur war, the USA, through an airbridge greatly helped Israel in resupplying the airforce which was badly hurt by the Russian SAM(surface air missiles).The Israeli airforce returned the favor a few years later by bombing and destroying a nuclear reactor in Iraq where nuclear weapons were being developed. Imagine sadam with nuclear weapons..<br />Oddjob did you ever ask yourself who armed and trained the kurdish resistance to Sadam Hussein?
