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Re: Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs
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Originally Posted by Adder
I don't know, but do you think we should be taking our foreign relations cues from oppressive middle eastern autocracies who are locked in a local struggle power struggle with a Persian Shiite regime that they see as a threat to their influence?
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Mark Kleiman:
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What could be better, from a Saudi viewpoint, than war between the U.S. and Iran? Note that the Saudis (and our other Arab quasi-friends) are willing to fight Iran to the last American. They have no interest whatever in doing anything themselves.
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