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Lebanon's Sectarian Aftershocks |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Lebanon |
| Author: Fred Wehrey and Dalia Dassa Kaye |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 877 Words, 5,595 Characters |
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In the volatile Middle East, America's efforts to build friendships have often created new enemies. Many of the divided religious and ethnic factions living in the region view any U.S. move to support one group as a hostile act toward that group's opponents.
After its invasion of Iraq, America tried to "play the Shiite card" by building an alliance with the Shiite Muslim majority that had long been persecuted under President Saddam Hussein, a Sunni. But in doing this, the United States alienated members of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, who became supporters of the insurgency tearing the nation apart.
Then when Shiite Hezbollah militiamen in Lebanon began raining rockets down on ...
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...n identity.
One way to try to keep ties open with all sides would be for the United States to continue to pursue a reopening of dialogue with Iran on broad range of regional issues. As distasteful as dialogue might be with an old enemy that is creating a new problem, it may ultimately be the best of the bad choices facing the United States.
Copyright © 2006 United Press International
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