Frankly, it took one for us to mostly settle our internal inconsistencies. And another hundred years after that to get key things started by the war finished... and we still have reverberations. Perhaps the Iraqis have to do that as well. To expect it to all be better in a few years, given their history, is to ignore the western experience, whether in Europe or North and South America. I suspect it's going to be just as hard for the Iraqis to settle theirs - for many of the same reasons it was hard for us. Just as soon we didn't find ourselves in the middle of it, however.
"Shiite and Sunni are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other," Pace said, before the tensions can be overcome. "The weight of that must be on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government."
You can read the rest of the Generals thoughts as reported by the AP, here.
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