I’m not sure AQ is Iran’s lapdog. AQ are fiercely orthodox Sunnis. Iran is Shi’ite. Sunnis and Shi’ites will gladly kill each other if you let them. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” only works for so long with these nutjobs.
Iran may be supplying AQI with stuff like EFPs to take out our armored vehicles, but if AQI starts to use the stuff on Mookie “Badteeth” Sadr’s Shi’ites instead of our troops, well, then the mullahocracy will get to experience “blowback.”
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Al Qaeda and Iranian Hezbollah have been working together for almost as long as al Qaeda has been in existence. Khobar Towers was a joint operation. The Mombassa hotel bombing in 2002 was a joint venture. The 9/11 Commission outlined evidence of Hezbollah cooperation in the attacks on New York and Washington. The 1999 Grand Jury indictment against UBL outlined such cooperation, also. When Khlaid Sheikh Mohammed was captured, his duties were assumed by a Shiite — Saif al-Adel. An agent of Iranian Hezbollah.
If the Sunni-Shiite divide was as deep and consuming as the American media likes to pretend it is, Iran would be practically doing our work for us in Iraq. The one thing that’s been completely absent from this “civil war” since the start has been actual fighting between al Qaeda and Mookie’s Hezbollah spinoff. All they’re doing is exchanging attacks on civilians... attacks that are staged to appear as if motivated by sectarian hostility.
Yes, you’re right, they’ll certainly kill each other if we let them. But they’d much rather kill us. And they’re working toward doing just that for quite a while now. The Sunni-Shiite history is just a convenient subterfuge for what they’re actually doing here in the present. The real “civil war” is between the jihadists and the moderates.
“I’m not sure AQ is Iran’s lapdog. AQ are fiercely orthodox Sunnis. Iran is Shi’ite. Sunnis and Shi’ites will gladly kill each other if you let them. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” only works for so long with these nutjobs.”
Thank you for bringing some sanity to this discussion.