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leveymg

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1. Destroying the secular Arab Ba'ath Party in Iraq and Syria removed a buffer to Sunni-Shi'ia war

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Mar 15, 2013, 07:48 AM

Mar 2013

The US and Europe have been goaded into this by the ambitions of the Saudis and the Israelis, and in the end this just accelerates the descent into all-out regional religious war.

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Middle East in turmoil 10 years after Iraq invasion that officials said would bring peace [View all] unhappycamper Mar 2013 OP

Destroying the secular Arab Ba'ath Party in Iraq and Syria removed a buffer to Sunni-Shi'ia war leveymg Mar 2013 #1

What a legacy PuraVidaDreamin Mar 2013 #2

It's not a legacy yet. The process of destabilization and imperial overreach continues in Syria. leveymg Mar 2013 #3

And Yemen and Somalia and Mali and ....... unhappycamper Mar 2013 #4

And the bees PuraVidaDreamin Mar 2013 #5