Reply #15: It is in the shaky interest of everyone

[PATRICK]

to hold things together. The Kurds would have a weak state bounded by powerful enemies with restive Kurdish populations(Iran, Turkey). Shiite Iraq temporally shields them and makes them appear harmless but protected. The Sunnis in Syria and even Saudi Arabia also need NOT to line up against each other over persecuted populations or the dominance of any faction in Iraq. Logically if the American or the Iraqis can't, it is necessary for the neighbors to carefully support the fulcrum, at least temporarily.

America is screwing all possible solutions up. The Dems sound like the naifs in the Kennedy administration get their feet dangled in GOP mire. In that the Democratic party has learned absolutely nothing, especially in the realignment of foreign policy toward the REAL ideals the crooks are currently hiding behind. Under the leadership of even Bush I they would take up the evil policy and dig in as if it actually were in our national interest and a boon to the ME. This is worse an illusion than fighting the Cold War in SE Asia, but it is stuck like flypaper onto oil money. We don't need the oil, but we WANT the money and the control. In doing so we have CREATED something to be feared so that it APPEARS right to fight the suckers and take their country.

If the current Dems keep falling for this then they deserve to quickly fade from existence and leave the way for new mindsets that hopefully can draw a straight line.