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Japan to the U.S.: 'We Don't Want to Exclude You, But...'

as professor Caroll Quigly rightly observed the mid east comprises of a tribal Patriarchal society Clinton understood this ( Quigley was his history professor) and bush SR. understood it (thats why he stopped short of bagdad ) george Jr who was either drunk or asleep in history class put our foot in this tar baby and now Obama is "unpredictable" as he try's to extricate us from this un manageable mess . to give a quick example of how tribal society's function look at the Palestinians. every time Arafat got 10 chiefs to agree the 11th chief bombed Israel and broke up the talks RATHER THAN SUCCED POWER TO A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT the graft flows up through the family' s and stops at the local chief there's no way these guys want democracy the only way to manage them is to be the baddest mother in the valley aka Saddam. you have a lot of cynical nerve to criticize Obama on this one. the best thing he could do is step out let them fight it out and deal with the winner.