Re: OT A reasonable timetable

theBZA wrote:

Gary Collard <jh@xxxxxx> wrote in news:46E5A809.CD06AA1@xxxxxx:


This, from an American peace organization, seems like a reasonable
take on a subject where reason is in short supply:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR20070
90801144_pf.html

New Report Recommends Iraq Handover in 5 Years



5 years or 50 years. The day our troops leave is the day the civil war explodes. Don't you get it? The only reason they aren't killing each other faster is because they all hate us more. I still don't get why you aren't over there helping.


Right. Anybody who thinks we can successfully referee the blood feud between the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq is ignorant of the history of the Sunni-Shiite split following the death of Muhammed. They have been at each other's throat in one way or another for about a millenium and a half now.

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