---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Obama is in a tough situation. But the die has been cast. The US cannot get involved in an Islamic civil war. Why can't they? If they hadn't opened the door for sectarian violence and al-Queda in 2003 this wouldn't be happening. It isn't like they weren't warned... The Iraqis had their chance to forge a nation for their own benefit, but apparently cannot do so. This is the reason the US didn't invade Iraq after the first Gulf war, the best analysis showed that a Shia/Sunni rift was all but inevitable and without a long term stabilising force they'd be better off leaving Saddam in charge. Which didn't stop the US & UK encouraging the southern marsh Arabs to rise up against Saddam, promising them any help in a revolution before pulling out and leaving them high and dry and facing severe reprisals from Saddam, which they got and the attrocities formed part of the dossier presented to British MP's about how we need to get rid of Saddam! If the country had to be divided due to religious reasons, let it be so. This may be the best answer, rather than having constant bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. It's inevitable, the region was split along Shia/Sunni lines for centuries before the French and British carved it up to benefit their own imperial ends, trouble is everyone is so fired up with jihad that any Islamic state will inevitably start planning more 9/11 type attacks. And we have big plans for Iraqi oil, which is supposed to be taking over when the Saudi wells start to run dry. All a bit of a pickle really....
