From: Ad 

Remember when the debate used to be if Iraq would slide into a civil
war...then if it was n a civil war etc.....?

Well that's soooo last year.... now the worry is whether the civil war will
turn into a proxy war (where all proxies will takes shots at coalition
troops as targets arise)....

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20611

well.....the prince of darkness is off to the area to try & slow that
process down....

"The US-Saudi alliance may also prove critical amid mounting tensions
between rising powers Saudi Arabia and Iran on Iraq and Lebanon though the
aide declined to characterize the struggle for influence as a "proxy
war."

"On the sort of notion of a proxy war, I mean, it's clearly important
to avoid any kind of inflammation of those tensions to that extent,"
the Cheney aide said.

"I don't think I wouldn't buy that premise yet, but there's no
doubting that those kinds of tensions exist and may be becoming more
acute," the aide said."

So now we're sliding from civil war into proxy war....I wonder when the
Turks will start to get involved...

Adam

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