Cutting off funding is not a plan

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ronald Cherrycoke

What Stoker doesn't grasp, or at least address, is insurgents are fellow country men with different political ideals. Not true in Iraq. Iraq has a holy civil war going on, which is a whole different animal than political dissidents.


Not exactly true...I believe most of the insurgents are Iranian or Syrians with a direct outside political viewpoint...with Iraq being a threat to their to their balance in the middle east.

If you look at the distribution of Muslim sects, Saddam's Sunni minority in Iraq are the majority in Iran. But that's it, the rest of the World is primarily Shia. I can see where the Iranians would have an interest in helping their Bros. But that said, I haven't seen any evidence of more than bomb building trainers and organizers....you know, scoutmasters, coming over. There's plenty of locals in Iraq, with nothing to do and nothing to lose.