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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You're not paying attention to who's actually running and what they're saying, are you? Or does this religion-neutral group have a name?
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2. As an aside, an NPR radio story this morning talked about the major Shia party in the election. When asked about reporters about the party's stance on the "issues," they had no articulable position on any issue at all, save getting the Americans out of country as soon as fucking possible.
Agree with the thrust of your point that this election seems to be almost entirely about ethnic and religious blocks. Bilmore's vision of these folks putting those divisions aside to make it all work is indeed nifty, and I wish it to be so, but from the reports that we've seen coming out of there, and the fact that this election seems to revolve almost entirely around the ethnic and religious divisions that Bilmore thinks we'll get past on Feb 1, I can't see it.
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No, this I really don't understand. Because the people who really believe in this vision of democratizing the Middle East should be ripped at Rumsfeld and Bush right now for screwing it up by trying to do it on the cheap.
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See, e.g., Bill Kristol.
