The minority Sunnis had ruled over majority Shiites for decades. The Sunni insurgents had been trying to reestablish that rule. The Shiite insurgents would have kicked their butts over the long run, resulting in a Sunni/Shiite civil war that would have drawn the entire region in.
Perhaps our stopping that was not a good thing. It would have killed most of the radicals on either side over time.
Apparently this journalist worked for the Butcher and unlike his opponents he escapes with his life with the “insult.”
The minority Sunnis had ruled over majority Shiites for decades. The Sunni insurgents had been trying to reestablish that rule. The Shiite insurgents would have kicked their butts over the long run, resulting in a Sunni/Shiite civil war that would have drawn the entire region in.
Perhaps our stopping that was not a good thing. It would have killed most of the radicals on either side over time.