Iraq: Out of the desert into Mosul (closed)

[ganulv]

He said something that has always stuck with me. He said---hey Shia and Sunnis are Arabs and as Arabs they will not negotiate a problem if each one believes themselves to be correct---they will beat each other to a pulp and when both are on the ground and can barely move then and only then will they negotiate what in the end is what they should have done in the first place.

That sounds a whole lot like the quote attributed to Churchill, “Americans will always do the right thing, after they have tried everything else.”