The West has parked itself between Shia Iran/Iraq and Sunni Iraqis/Saudi and has to date lost 4,161 coalition deaths in Iraq and some 30,000 wounded—without counting the Iraqi casualties. Shia and Sunni are determined to kill each other, why are we sitting in the middle—and being spat on by both sides. Why is it in our interests to stop them? Let them get on with it! Let them kill each other in the name of Allah!
This is a “Mohammed Cartoon” and as a free cat, I assert my right to publish it.Bush Jnr. and the neoconservatives in Washington thought they could tame Iraq—well tame it after the Shia/Sunni battle is over.
In the meantime, the West managed to beat the Taliban in 2001 but in 2007 Afghanistan is still producing more poppies than ever. A bumper harvest this year! Is NATO totally useless that it allows this to go on? Destroy the whole bloody crop while you have the chance—and sod the moaning farmers and that useless Karzai. At the moment, it is a half hearted struggle in Afghanistan, much in the manner of Vietnam, and will give the same result. Put some backbone into it.
The final point is, that inasmuch Pakistan is close to civil war, the West needs to napalm Waziristan and help push Pakistan’s military into doing what’s right. There is never going to be the remotest possibility of any democracy in that country and the US should face reality shut up about pushing “democracy” dogma.
