[lbo-talk] Saudis Say They Might Back Sunnis if U.S. Leaves Iraq

[Michael J. Smith]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:09, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

 
> WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration
> that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war
> against Iraq's Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of
> Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats. 

What's old is new again. Sounds like a replay of the Iran-Iraq war of the 
80s -- though without Iraq, in a sense. Kind of an ideal scenario for 
certain schools of thought about the Middle East -- Arabs fighting 
Islamist Persians, but without any inconvenient and potentially 
disobedient Arab states. 

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  Michael J. Smith

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