Reply #5: I doubt it [View All]

[makhno]

I doubt that this guy's primary motivation is as lofty as you suggest. He is a political animal through and through, a religious operative from the Khomeini school of Islamic politics. I'm positive that if he determined that cooperating with the US would afford him the best position in the "new Iraq", he wouldn't hesitate to do so.

That said, I don't deny that genuine nationalistic and religious feelings partially drive his approach. He just strikes me as the Shiite equivalent of the Soviet bloc "communist" leaders - socialism if politically expedient, realism otherwise.

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