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In response to "I'm not sure I believe that. There's no reason we had to end up with these series of conflicts in this region" by Reagen

Are you talking about Iran or Afghanistan? I was thinking Iran, and that its quest for a nuclear bomb isn't so much about the West as enemy as its

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Nov 30 '09, 10:26

own insecurity within the Muslim world. But I don't know the history that well - I imagine there were times when Sunni and Shia nations managed to get along well, and times they didn't, just like with European nations that followed different variations of Christianity.

If Afghanistan, you'd probably only have to go back as far as the 1840s/50s when Russia was expanding across the steppes and British India was rubbing up against the North West Frontier

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Iran leads to Afghanistan. -- nm - Reagen Nov 30, 10:41 3
- I see them being on different tracks - if not for September 11, there's be no US involvement in Afghanistan, and I don't believe the Taliban operated - Roger More Nov 30, 10:53 2
  - I'm not claiming they ever did (in fact Iran had a lot of issues with AlQaeda) - Reagen Nov 30, 11:01 1
    - Thanks - now I get the links -- nm - Roger More Nov 30, 11:03

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