Reply #13: I love trying to use logic to explain the actions of this Bush cabal.

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Sometimes I think they just want instability so that they can just plant themselves in the middle of the chaos as some sort of regulator. I think some form of religon oriented authority is going to remain the dominant force in that region, no matter what secular wedge we can engineer with the Sunnis, the Batthists, or whoever. The experimenting is all on our side, and it's backfiring. We are being drawn deeper into a web of sectarian struggle for power that has been going on there for decades. We can only complicate and aggravate the political situation with our military and our control of their resources. We need to quit.