aceventura3

I am not sure this will address what you want it to address, but I will start with the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. Many believe the conditions in Iraq have deteriorated into a civil war, and that the conflict should have been anticipated, some even blame the USA. If you agree that the Iraq situation has deterioated into a civil war, I ask - what is the basis? To blame it on the USA is far to simple and a insufficient explanation for a number of reasons. At the basic level they are fighting and killling, using terrorism as a tactic, for control. They want to control what the nation is, they want to control what people are, how they worship, what they can and can not do within the country.

I am not sure if you believe that the conflict in Iraq has served as a magnet for terrorist groups, but I do. Many of these groups want to wipe Isreal off of the face of the map - and those coutries that support Isreal. Some of the terrorists have their own homelands and the territory in question is not their cause. In some cases their cause is simply to deny Jewish people the right to life. In other cases they resent western culture, and they want to deny people access to the trappings of western culture. They want to restrict trade, the exchange of information, freedom of choice,education, political voice or power, self-determination and other things we often take for granted.

In my mind it is a question of control.

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