Word: shying
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...Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire, England Radical Sheik Scott Macleod seems to romanticize Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah [Aug. 21]. Behind his smiling face is a militant radical. Nasrallah and his allies are responsible for ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon. Most of the Christian population has been driven away and replaced by Shi'ite Muslims. Nasrallah is an agent of Iran's policy of destabilization. Will Western democracies allow him to continue that work? David Hillel Tel Aviv President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have been outmaneuvered by Iran and their Hizballah agents...
...TIME: Should Iraq be divided into Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish zones...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...Iraq's security. At first it seemed as if the U.S.-led coalition was facing an insurgency led by Saddam loyalists, with the support of foreign terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. But increasingly what was happening in Iraq was a sectarian war between the Sunni minority and the Shi'ite majority. The country that Americans had set out to democratize had, on closer inspection, voted to break apart. A spiral of tit-for-tat massacres in ethnically mixed Baghdad and the surrounding provinces ensured that the disintegration would happen in the bloodiest possible way. By the summer of 2006, despite...
Worse, by breaking up Iraq, the U.S. had unwittingly handed a belated victory in the earlier Iran-Iraq war to the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. No state stood to gain more from democracy in Iraq, since the country's Shi'ite majority felt close ties of kinship to Iran. And no state in the region was more explicitly committed to the destruction of America's ally Israel...