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Thread #68614   Message #1158530
Posted By: Amos
10-Apr-04 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Iraq = Bush's Vietnam?
Subject: RE: BS: Iraq = Bush's Vietnam?
Iraq won't settle down until the notion of statism replaces the notion of tribalism in the minds of those living there. The western nations made this transition over hundreds of years; the Arab nations, with perhaps the exception of Egypt, did not. It is a different and incompaptible world-view.

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