Re:Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam
by godzillabrennus on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:51AM
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It behooves the world to have a lasting peace with Iran but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind. It'd be better to focus on giving the Kurds a Kurdistan in the Northern part of Iraq to call home. I'd bet they'd be great allies to the West.
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Re:Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam
by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:59AM
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Yes this is a great point - though I'm not advocating for any consolidated religious power. I don't think Iran would really be a good fit for that anyway, as the political-religious combination is fairly recent and was an affect of major political polarization as the whole region started gaining power through oil trade.
The Kurds are an amazing and resilient group that have been an incredible ally to the west.
I don't know any group it's size who has been more historically oppressed, marginalized and killed with almost nobody paying any attention to it.
Re:Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam
by wfunction on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:56AM
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> but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind.
As if that's not happened in Western societies?