Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
Lemur,
Second, there doesn't appear to be any cohesive Shia stance. Rather, there are a variety of Shia parties/groups with their own agendas.
RE: The Life of Brian, The Popular Peoples Front of Judea and its splitters.




By contrast, moving away from absolute commitment -- for example, by beginning to shift U.S. combat troops out of the central theaters -- would increase U.S. diplomatic and military leverage on almost all fronts. Doing so would not allow the current or the next U.S. administration to bring a quick end to the civil war, which most likely will last for some time.
By this reasoning we should step back our military role to let the factions and foreign influences fight it out against each other and civilians in hopes of gaining a better diplomatic stance. Anyone else see a glaring problem with this?