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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:32 am Post subject: "Iraq will not be a Qaedistan" |
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/opinion/edroy.php?page=1
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One of the key questions in the U.S. presidential race is what will happen if U.S. troops leave Iraq.
Of course nobody knows for sure. But I can say this: Al Qaeda will not take power and establish an Islamic state.
Too many in the West persist in seeing Al Qaeda as a territorialized Middle East organization bent on expelling the Christians and Jews from the region in order to create a "Dar al-Islam" (land of Islam) under the umbrella of a caliphate.
Al Qaeda is not a continuation of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas or Hezbollah. It is a non-territorial global entity which has never tried to implement an Islamic state, even in Afghanistan, where it found sanctuary in the 1990s.
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The mirror effect of those who claim a clash of civilizations, of course, intensifies the impact. In fact, Al Qaeda needs those who demonize it, because it makes it what it is not: the vanguard of the "Muslim wrath." |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| You might be correct but Al Qaeda will keep on trying. |
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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| If the U.S. troops leave, there might be a civil war, there might be a growing Iranian influence, Iraq might be turned into a battlefield by proxies between Saudi Arabia and Iran. |
The writer is 1 year behind the curve. Civil war is already afoot and the proxies are already fighting each other.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070301faessay86201/james-d-fearon/iraq-s-civil-war.html
The only question now is when we leave, which country will control which oil field. |
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