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To: Grzegorz 246

Wholeheartedly agree. Iranian mullahcracy is the next domino. Once it's gone, there will be only Pakistan's border area to support Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Pakistani and Indian relations have been improving, as have India's relations with the US (and for that matter, with Israel). The removal of Islamic influence is a long way off, and the middle term goal is to redirect momentum (point the Moslems the same direction the US is going) and to build US influence in Central Asia, basically to balance both the Russians and the Chinese.

I wonder about Azerbaijan... the Iranian gov't was posturing a couple years ago regarding an oil field, threatening to take control of it and the whole neighboring country; sez on the World Factbook that the country's corrupt (and predominantly Moslem, what a huge coincidence), has almost 600K refugees from a dispute it had with Armenia, and if memory serves, relations with Turkey broke down a while back because of Azerbaijan's failure to back some Turkish position on Cyprus.


33 posted on 02/20/2006 7:06:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. (Longfellow))
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To: SunkenCiv; Grzegorz 246

The question is will the Iranian government implode if the US attacks the hundreds of nuclear sites around the country. Where will the so called Iranian moderates fall out. Will they radicalize in hating the West or will they see this as an opportunity to escape the Mullocracy.

And Grzegorz, you overestimate the rebuilding speed.


34 posted on 02/20/2006 8:15:39 PM PST by dervish ("And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?")
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