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I've always loved Fareed, he fully understands the regionalities and culture of the regions while not falling victim to the blame-the-west mentality which predominates most intellectuals which get any airtime.
And I disagree with you Dux, while there are enormous divisions within the nation of Iraq, there is also a very strong history of cross-ethnic defense for the country. For example, at the same time their villages were being gassed, large quantities of Kurds voluntarily joined the Iraqi army to fight Iran. This was at the same time that the Kurdish Defense Forces were being supplied almost completely by Iran.
I believe that while there will be large amounts of bickering upon our withdrawl, that all militias will slowly de-militarized as the government is established.
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