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Again, from the same article<\/a> by Rajeev Srinivasan, I had to post this separately since it was significant and yet so well thought out and anticipated! That I could not imagine it was probably because it was so obvious! A demo of Divide and Rule at its best is underway currently in Iraq, Iran and the rest of the Middle East!<\/p>\n

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Therefore Plan B may well be as follows: do a balancing act by getting the Shiites and Sunnis to checkmate each other. There is some evidence that this is working. The two sects have begun indulging in mass reprisals against each other, and each has out-of-control militias running around. Intriguingly, a new fatwa<\/em><\/a> by a top Saudi scholar declares Shiites to be infidels, worse than Jews and Christians, link thanks to reader Shahryar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, if the Arab Street can be manipulated into all-out Sunni-Shia fratricide, America would escape being Number One on the hit list of the most violent Mohammedan fundamentalists. This may well be the best Americans can hope for. It would achieve several things at once: reduce Iran\u2019s (Shiite) growing influence over Arab (mostly Sunni) populations, cause extensive bloodletting (Shiites are numerical minorities in most Mohammedan nations, and vulnerable), and help Saudis to retain their primacy over Iran.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Again, from the same article<\/a> by Rajeev Srinivasan, I had to post this separately since it was significant and yet so well thought out and anticipated! That I could not imagine it was probably because it was so obvious! A demo of Divide and Rule at its best is underway currently in Iraq, Iran and the rest of the Middle East!<\/p>\n

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Therefore Plan B may well be as follows: do a balancing act by getting the Shiites and Sunnis to checkmate each other. There is some evidence that this is working. The two sects have begun indulging in mass reprisals against each other, and each has out-of-control militias running around. Intriguingly, a new fatwa<\/em><\/a> by a top Saudi scholar declares Shiites to be infidels, worse than Jews and Christians, link thanks to reader Shahryar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terrorism","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Plan B for Iraq!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Again, from the same article by Rajeev Srinivasan, I had to post this separately since it was significant and yet so well thought out and anticipated! That I could not imagine it was probably because it was so obvious! A demo of Divide and Rule at its best is underway currently in Iraq, Iran and the rest of the Middle East! 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