What I find most interesting is that the Sunnis have finally figured out that being subjugated by Al Qaeda is far worse than cooperating with U.S. and coalition forces. Whether they can find peaceful co-existence with the Shiites, especially Sadr's thugs, is another story. As you suggest, we need to provide them with the security to let them try to work together. Ultimately, we can't save them from themselves, they need to learn on their own that living together is better than endless death and destruction.
As for Al Qaeda, I think they are doing our work for us. People in the Muslim world are increasingly disgusted by their brutality and their medieval view of the world. The best thing we can do is continue to remind the world what Al Qaeda wants- a worldwide Muslim caliphate based on a brutal 12th century Islamist ideology. On 7/31/07, Gruss wrote: > > > gMoney wrote: > > It sounds like Patraeus (which i'm sure I have misspelled) is finally > the > > right guy for the job. > > > > I think you have to break it up into 2 questions: > > (1.) Can we secure Iraq from civil war such that they can take it for > better or worse? > > (2.) How do we best fight Al Quaeda, be them in Iraq or elsewhere? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239352 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
