Exploring the Opposition Mind on Iraq: to the future

[Lemur]

... the other thing people seem to miss is that, maybe the people in power don't want to get along, maybe the shia in government and the sunni tribes want to have a civil war...they don't seem to be making much effort to stop it...

I suspect this is the case. We have a situation where every major group believes that it will get to run the death camps. They have a long history of winner-take-all, and zero experience of compromise. At the moment, from their perspective we are getting in the way of their righteous cleansing of the infidels, their neighbors.