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jody
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Fri Jul-25-08 06:25 PM
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| 38. IMO some of the stability in Iraq is the result of communities completing their local version of |
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ethnic cleansing with Shia and Sunni and Kurds effectively within their own cultural communities.
I believe about 65% of the marriages in Iraq are between first and second cousins. That is the tradition in a tribal society of which the Hebrews of Old Testament fame are one instance.
I doubt if western nations can force the Iraqi peoples to instantly renounce their heritage and adopt western cultural.
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