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7th March 2013 | 08:20

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Pontius Navigator

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Originally Posted by Roland Pulfrew

WTF Is Hague up to? I always thought he was a sensible bloke, but I think we are backing the wrong side here.

Now according to the Torygraph, the Shia are the moderate good guys and the Sunni are becoming the increasingly extremist bad guys. So we decide we don't like one side to our enemies enemy becomes our friend.

Now remind me, what happened in 1941, then what happened in 1945?

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the Arab world don't really seem to be doing much to help sort out this Arab problem

What problem? If they don't see a problem then it's not a problem for them. Once again it is the modern western world that cannot live with the traditional eastern model.

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