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Become a Fan   (2 fans) - Advertisement - Our president doesn't
see Iraq as a broken egg. No, he prefers to think of the egg as
cracked, he said recently. At the risk of trivializing deadly
serious issues--the egg is scrambled, at least. But then, our
Mid-east policies generally are about as coherent as, say, our
nuclear energy policies, our environmental policies or anything
else touched by our current chefs. In other words, they aren't
coherent at all. They've managed to make everyone in the Middle
East mad at us.  By putting Shiites in charge of Iraq, they
angered Sunni majorities in most every other Mid-eastern
country, including allies like Saudi Arabia. By shaking a big
stick at Iraq's neighbor, Iran, they've managed to alienate the
Shiite majority there and inside Iraq.  Face it: The current
round of ethnic cleansing took off under our occupation.
Deliberately or not, we did