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Civil War: There or Here?

The newly freed Iraqi press is filled daily with alarm and reports despairing that upcoming elections will be failures with warnings of the dread prospect of civil war due to the deep and apparently irreconcilable differences of political factions.

If the bickering groups can find no common ground, the cold, sweaty, palpable fear is that the war will be lost against the insurgents and Iraq will be plunged into chaos, with America's investment of blood and treasure lost in a quagmire that will plague not only the Middle East, but the entire world in bitter ideological struggles, fueling world wide terrorism to the profit of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda cohorts.

Indeed, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that over 73% of Iraqi citizens fear that in the United States, Democrats and Republicans will never be able to get beyond their petty political differences to embrace a coherent foreign policy towards Iraq and the Middle East, thereby dooming their country to a return to a modern day dark ages as was experienced under Saddam Hussein.

It is truly a paradox that our politicians here should expect a higher level of cooperation and courtesy between Shi'ites and Sunnis than currently exists between Democrats and Republicans.



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