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Even more nuanced than that.. are shias willing to take security for both sides? Or do they just want security for themselves but to keep the sunnis on the run? And which shias, while we are at it?
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if you can answer that, i think you just got yourself a position on petraeus's all-star staff
so far, what we've seen has not been encouraging. i've seen isolated reports of shi'a helping out old sunni friends and vice versa, but nothing indicative yet for a basis for national reconciliation, either top-down or bottom-up.
and if basra is any indication, the hakims and the sadr clans are gonna be making it hot for each other for years.
it will be interesting if sadr ends up beating hakim. the sunni tribes we've been working with in anbar and other places don't exactly feel warm feelings for those associated with JAM.