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Originally Posted by Aquila
It's not going to hold. First, it's an Islamic culture. Second, there are outside forces such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia who are just looking destabilize Iraq.
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Ah, but the good news is that Iraq and Iran have been enemies for a long time and a strong Iraq government will be able to discourage Iran from interfering. They share Shia believers but most Iraqi Shia don't want Iran dictating to them.
I am not sure why you think Saudi Arabia and Russia desire to destabilize Iraq.
BTW - One thing you don't really read in the media but my son pointed out to me is that a large majority of the Iraqi populatoin is secular. They make noises about religion but are what we would call "Sunday or Easter Christians" in our faith in America. Of course out of 25 million people you only need 10% to be religous zealots and you have 2.5 million!
Ibelieve the majority of Iraqis whoare secular for the most part will support a strong government and it doing what it needs to do to keep outside interference at a minimum.
However if we leave prematurely before the Iraq government is strong enough then your prediction will come true. That is the Irony. Libs / Dems would force us to cut and run and then when things would collapse they would try to say "we told you it would"! when they would have caused it themselves.
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