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Originally Posted by finnbow
Whenever we pull out (next month or next year or three years ago), it will revert to a civil war with the Shia having the numbers and the support of Iran. Simple as that, really.
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Well, there may be an elegent solution to the two problems of Iraq and Iran. Maybe we'll set up a dictator who hates Iran as much as we do. The revolution was a threat to some of those guys who are worried that Iran won’t be happy until they control the entire region. We can supply a dictator with weapons to keep Iran at bay and let him be the bad guy. Think about it- with Iraq and Iran at each other, we can watch from a distance. Kind of a "dual containment" policy, if you will, with U.S. forces just over the horizon. You know, exactly like we did with... oh, wait a minute, that was Iraq.
Well, once they get a taste of democracy, I'm sure they'll stop fighting each other and make nice. Yeah. That's the ticket.