Re: What Can the US Do to Prevent Iraq From Forming an Alliance With

On Jul 23, 6:08 pm, "mg" <mgkel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Before the invasion of Iraq, one of the most obvious
> questions experts undoubtedly asked was will we destroy the
> balance in the Middle East and what can we do to prevent
> Iraq from becoming an ally of Iran as a result of the war?


It's interesting to see how people consider such matters to be within
the power of the USA
to either engender or prevent.   It's even more interesting to see
that people consider it
an entirely acceptable state of affairs that such control over those
nations is even appropriate.

I find that very, very interesting. These are two independent,
sovreign nations.  Yet there is a
notion that an alliance between them is something that another nation
would actively prevent,
assuming that such prevention were possible.  Do you apply this
reasoning to any two random
nations we can pick from the map, or do you consider Iran and Iraq to
be special for some reason?