For once the Administration makes sense: Let Iraqis root out the foreign Al Queda invaders

[MadRat]

Al Queda exists not because of a unified belief in Islam by the Arabs but more like because Arabs have a culture of scapegoats. The foreigners that are supposedly flocking to Iraq are going to be in for one horrible surprise, Iraqi is hell for outsiders. Iraq has always been a fronteir to the Western world because they do not understand the people and its customs. The people of Iraq have only been unified in modern times through force and never through modern principles of humanity such as the idea that a life is more precious than materiel wealth. Now that the whole of Iraqi society has a taste of freedom its not something easily wrenched away from them. Even if Saddam tried to come back, the Shiites or some other culture in Iraq would eventually snuff him. The only way he survived the Gulf War was because America and the Coalition withdrew support for the non-Sunnis.

These fools that are leaving their own countries to fight this war against Americanism are in for a rowdy surprise when the Iraqis get ahold of them. The non-Sunni members of Iraq will surely do the job that the US cannot, root them out before they cause general mayhem. There is a positive spin to these people leaving their origins and going to Iraq, its going to stabilize the countries from which they originate when these nuts never make it home.

 

[beer]

The problem is that all the attacks are in Sunni regions. So your theory is flawed because the non-Sunnis are not a significant percentage of the population in the regions where attacks are happening.

 

[VioletAura]

Ever hear the phase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" ? Don't expect help from Iraqis to root out those fighting the US occupational forces since they both share a common enemy.

 

[Witling]

MadRat, let's match predictions. I predict that Iraq will continue as we've seen it. There is a possibility that attacks will escalate. When you start seeing riots -- and we've been close -- we, as Americans are done in Iraq. Before the next presidential election, we'll set up a pest hole government, not unlike Saadam's but it will be ours.

That's my prediction. Please, your Ratliness, let us know what the outcome of your observations will be so that we may test your proposition.

 

[MadRat]

The last riot outside the Sunni triangle was in the South where the monthly stipend for unemployed went from $168/month to $72/month. The British were paying much too much early on and the Shiites went apeshzt over it. Other than that most of the problems have been in the proximity of the Sunnis. The arrest yesterday of two former generals will go a long ways to slow down the post-war leadership in the current resistance. Like all battles against resistance, eventually enough oil breaks the friction. The oil in this case is going to eventually boil down to non-Sunni, yet still of Iraqi origin, brutes laying the heavy hands of the law down in Tikrit and Baghdad.