Reply #1: Formula for civil war [View All]

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Yeah, that's real smart on Talabani's part. Tens of thousands of bloodthirsty, heavily armed Kurdish peshmerga descending on Sunni Arab homes in Ramadi and rebellious Shiite Arab homes in Sadr City. Besides the fact that the Kurds' forces would be seriously depleted in the fighting (and thus unable to fight in the Kurdish War of Independence which we all know is around the bend), this would inflame sentiments toward civil war in those places and make resistance even worse. Plus they'd attract tens of thousands more foreign fighters. A bad, bad idea.