Once again, lessons of HISTORY never learned, nor applied by the leaders of nations. The enemy of mine enemy is my friend. ...until otherwise. ...the most glaring and obvious is that America was prepared to replace Saddam’s secular Sunni regime with the first Shia government of an Arab nation. Why this should have given pause to the planners of OIF is because an Arab Shia controlled nation has NEVER EXISTED in modern times — never. History matters, especially in the CULTURAL CONTENT of any conflict. Nowhere in the Middle East was the divide between Sunni and Shia more bitter than in Iraq. Yet somehow this was overlooked?
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:43:32 +0000
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