... and Iranian Shias find common cause in the not too distant future and bring about an Excedrin #287 headache for the USA and its coalition allies.
Blood is indeed thicker than the water poured on the smoldering embers of Sadaam's Baathist legacy.
I predict at or near the end of the western military presence the Iranians will fulment revolution amongst the Sunnis in order to gain closer ties with their Iraqi Shia cousins.
The real test of Dubya's democratic solution for the Muslim Middle East will be how well the new Iraqi government can administer domestic affairs in the short-term. If they don't have a man sized amount of democratic testostorone flowing in their veins, they won't last half a decade before civil war breaks out.
Remember the Arab worldview, especially the Arab Muslim worldview is inherently different to the Western worldview.
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