Pulling out of Iraq
Many people have made the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam, but soon there will be a more accurate analogy. There are sharp divisions between the Shiites and the Sunnis, the same as there were sharp divisions between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda. The Tutsi minority was privileged under Belgian colonialist rule, while the Hutu majority was kept oppressed. The Sunni minority was privileged under Saddam Hussein, while the Shiite majority was oppressed. When Belgium broke its colonialist ties and Rwanda finally became independent, the world witnessed what happens when such divisions are left to play themselves out. We know the devastating consequences of creating such power vacuums. George W. Bush is fully responsible for what is going to happen when US troops pull out of Iraq.
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why do you speak of Viet Nam and then only talk about Rwanda? guess your public education didnt include geography did it.
Posted by on July 15, 2007 07:05 AMI'm not quite sure there'd be a Rwanda-style pogrom in Iraq should we leave-the Sunnis AND the Shias are both armed well enough to stave off extermination.There would be the mother of all civil wars,unlike post US Viet Nam.The only Nam analogy is the one peddled by the American Left (which gives liberalism the mother of all black eyes) .That gang of traitors continues to foam at the mouth anticipating another Viet Nam-style trashing of your country and mine.
Posted by Jimminy on July 15, 2007 12:19 PM