Damned Whether We Stay or Leave
FOCUS: U.S. Wounded in Iraq Reaches 10,000
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Z.shtml
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It looks as though we are trapped in a horrible dilemma now over there, as I heard outlined by two Middle East experts (Columbia and Sarah Lawrence) in the middle of the night (whose names I did not catch in he re-run of one of the excellent WNYC interview programs from yesterday):
http://www.wnyc.org/
The resistance (insurgency 95% Sunni) now is provoked by the presence of our troops who are the kiss of death for those who co-operate with us and yet the threat of a brutal civil war between or among the 3 separate groups -- Sunni, Shiite, Kurd -- looms now that we have broken the order that restrained such. We are, thus, damned whether we stay or leave. The elections -- which are increasingly being resisted -- may only exacerbate both the attacks on us and disputes between factions. EAK
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Z.shtml
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It looks as though we are trapped in a horrible dilemma now over there, as I heard outlined by two Middle East experts (Columbia and Sarah Lawrence) in the middle of the night (whose names I did not catch in he re-run of one of the excellent WNYC interview programs from yesterday):
http://www.wnyc.org/
The resistance (insurgency 95% Sunni) now is provoked by the presence of our troops who are the kiss of death for those who co-operate with us and yet the threat of a brutal civil war between or among the 3 separate groups -- Sunni, Shiite, Kurd -- looms now that we have broken the order that restrained such. We are, thus, damned whether we stay or leave. The elections -- which are increasingly being resisted -- may only exacerbate both the attacks on us and disputes between factions. EAK
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