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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 234829" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>This hit the newswire yesterday and with Sen. Warner the ranking repub. on the Armed Services Committee, I'm sure this is more added pressure ahead of the Sept. report on the surge.</p><p></p><p>More and more reports also suggest Maliki being ****e is much closer to Iran than he is to the US and in light of the numerous folks condemning Maliki and his efforts, I have to believe sadly that this may have a whole lot more truth to it than we want to admit. </p><p></p><p>No argument the US military has done an awesome job and given a task with unbelievable odds. Their picture IMO should be the definiton of the term hero. The one thing that none of us can do is change the hearts and minds of men when they are driven by the passions of cultural traditions and religious dogma that has existed for millenia plus! Look at our own western european Christian traditions and the rift of Protestant and Catholic that existed for so many centuries. We've only the last 50 or so years finally bridged those gaps and the Sunni and Shi'a aren't even on a speaking basis yet. Until they can reach that point, it will require authoritarian rule and sometimes very hard and harsh rule to make those people live nice and play nice. </p><p></p><p></p><p>JMHO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 234829, member: 2189"] This hit the newswire yesterday and with Sen. Warner the ranking repub. on the Armed Services Committee, I'm sure this is more added pressure ahead of the Sept. report on the surge. More and more reports also suggest Maliki being ****e is much closer to Iran than he is to the US and in light of the numerous folks condemning Maliki and his efforts, I have to believe sadly that this may have a whole lot more truth to it than we want to admit. No argument the US military has done an awesome job and given a task with unbelievable odds. Their picture IMO should be the definiton of the term hero. The one thing that none of us can do is change the hearts and minds of men when they are driven by the passions of cultural traditions and religious dogma that has existed for millenia plus! Look at our own western european Christian traditions and the rift of Protestant and Catholic that existed for so many centuries. We've only the last 50 or so years finally bridged those gaps and the Sunni and Shi'a aren't even on a speaking basis yet. Until they can reach that point, it will require authoritarian rule and sometimes very hard and harsh rule to make those people live nice and play nice. JMHO [/QUOTE]
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