Muqtada al-Sadr: Spoiler or Stabilizer?

[SSG Rock]

Oversimplified? Of course, maybe I should have said that perhaps easing the friction is the best we can hope for? Afterall, we will never have an impact on religious beliefs, so we have to leverage what we can. What is the alternative, to ensuring that all groups feel empowered? Carving up the country is the only thing I can think of and I don't think the administration wants to go there.

[Tom Odom]

Rock,

That is the central "gut nut" of the situation, one so assessed in 1990 in the run up to Desert Storm, and one still intact in 2006. That sounds simplistic on my part I know but there it is and there it was...

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Tom

[Steve Blair]

Rock,

That is the central "gut nut" of the situation, one so assessed in 1990 in the run up to Desert Storm, and one still intact in 2006. That sounds simplistic on my part I know but there it is and there it was...

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Tom

And there it's always been. It may be simplistic, but sometimes things are that way when you strip away the layers.