O, hail, my fellow bored American Idol fans curious peeps who are so utterly concerned about peace and justice in the world!
Realpolitik can be a real biach, I say. The biachiest biach of them all, actually. So here are a couple of fancy maps with many colors that look kinda realpolitik-ey.
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I do take issue with one point: "Ironically, removing Saddam did a great favor to the ayatollahs." "Ironically"? Irony is when the literal meaning of a term is opposite from the actual meaning. The ayatollahs (Shia) were hardly put out when Saddam (Suni) was hanged. Heck Shia did the "removing."
Also, it looks like things have changed from 2008, in that Iran is no longer being skirted.
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And commendations on a great post as well.
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I think he meant it was ironic from a western interest point of view, which would be to avoid doing favors for Iran.
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