Reply #17: That's the interesting thing about Life. :) [View All]

Palestinian al Zarqawi has no credibility on Iraqi matters, imo.

There's always a first time for everything, so yep there could be a civil war between Sunni & Shia, exactly like our own civil war, because Sunni & Shia marry each other, so they'd be fighting father against son etc.

But that's THEIR right and THEIR business, not ours.

Had the French stuck around after our booting Brit arse out, we'd simply have turned on the French after we got rid of the Brits.

Had any nation butted in to break up the fight during our own civil war, again we'd have all turned on them and then continued our civil war.

Sadly, that's the way the world works, always has & always will.

So if for the first time in their history a civil war breaks out between Sunni and Shia, it's just simply not our business nor our right to interefere, just as we not have countenanced ANYONE interfering with ours. Unfortunately many people (esp we Americans, it seems) have a heavy dose of that "white man's burden" thing, where we see ourselves as the benign kindly and very superior parent to the inferior.

Funny thing is, the recipients of our fatherliness don't appreciate it much. *sarcasm*

I'm glad we have common & uncommon ground. :) Forgive my bad mood responses;, we've several friends still Iraqmired & their division's taking a lot of caasualties right now. Waiting to hear names tends to make me one mean individual.