Judy -- What would you say to (something I think probable) a division of the country into a Sunni state, a Shiite state, and a Kurdish state? I know moderate Muslims in Baghdad who live peacefully with neighbors and friends from a different sect but they are becoming fewer and fewer. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The beginning of the end in Iraq Date: 10/22/2006 2:56:37 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: > Eric: and what you would want for Iraq is ... ? I would want it to be a peaceful and prosperous pluralist democracy, I do not want to see it made a desert and pronounced a democracy next question? Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The beginning of the end in Iraq > Judy: You must have been told a hundred times (it certainly > seems like a hundred...) that opposition to a war is not the > same as "want us to lose it" except insofar as what you > might call victory is not what opponents of the war want > i.e. we do not want to see Iraq made a desert and proclaimed > a democracy. > > Eric: and what you would want for Iraq is ... ? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html