Well put. The idea that there will be some Iraq/Iran partnership based on Sh'ia Islam is ridiculous. The Iraqis are arabs and most are nationalistic. They share neither the culture or language of the Persians. The 8 year war with Iran has left both sides with antipathies to the other. Iraq is about two thirds Shiite. People forget that the Kurds are Sunnis. In any event, many of the so-called pundits place too much emphasis on the religious differences in Iraq. It is about tribal and political differences.
Having lived in Iran for two years, I found that the Iranians look down on the arabs and see them as ignorant barbarians.
Yep.
Another interesting thing about the lefty rhetoric is that the established line is we lost the war on terror because Iraq will become just like Iran without the influence of the Ba'athists to save them (and us) from themselves while AT THE SAME TIME they're telling us that Iran is great just the way it is, run by Hillary-like "progressives" and Bush us evil for naming Iran as part of the "Axis od Evil"
Democrats are kind of setting their own rhetoric up to bite them on the rear...with our help, of course ;-)