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Originally posted by rambo47: I recall a lecture at Yale about middle east politics back in late '91. One of the fears many folks had, including this lecturer was of a united Iran/Iraq under the flag of Fundamentalist Islam. This possibility was a worst case scenario and probably contributed to our inaction against SH. So now we have to deal with this sh!tbag today instead of 12 years ago. In retrospect it would have been better to whack him then. Schwarzkopf and Powell wanted to buy they were reined in and told "mission accomplished." |
Yeah, I remember that all the top scholars and think tanks spent years coming up with this scenario, mainly based on historical and religious ties going back even before the ascension of Islam. Then there were the shortsighted morons who thought that it couldn't happen just because the two countries had been at war with one another.