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Originally posted by JR@Jun 28 2005, 06:47 PM
i do not believe this anymore. different region, different mentality. 3 major ethnic groups all support a state as long as its dominated by their group. they are obviously ready to fight and die for this.
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It's ironic that America is always a target, as it's the British and French and others who screwed up the Middle East (and long ago before America was involved.) Talking about the time of the Turks, the Ottoman Empire, Britian in Eqypt, Lawrence of Arabia, and all the things of that time with the colonialism.
Basically, Britian, France and others pre-WWII carved up the mid east the way they wanted. One of the thngs was Iraq.
"But you can't put Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis together in one country" they tried to explain to the colonial empires.
Natch, the west (in this case Western Europe) ignored it, either because the west did not understand, or because they thought it would be "fun to keep the three of them together fighting as nothing would ever come of them." Who knows which is the reason.
And they did that all along the mid east. Now I'm not saying Islamic fundamentalism isn't a problem. Nor that this is the only problem. But the whole, "let's draw a circle here, group a bunch tribes together that hate each other together, and call it a country" crap, is a legacy that we see today causing everyone problems.