On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Shi'is and Sunnis need the kind of leaders who are capable of letting
> bygones be bygones and unite with enemies who killed their own mothers
> and fathers. That's the precondition for any strategic or even
> tactical unity between the Sadr bloc and former Ba'athists.
Yup, for sure, but isn't this the sort of wishful thinking you're always accusing Western leftists of?
Doug