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Dirty Little Secrets
Reality Check for Sunni Arabs
by James Dunnigan
September 1, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
Many Sunni Arabs are getting fed up with the terrorism, and lack of order in
Sunni Arab areas. The contrast between the poverty stricken Sunni Arab areas,
and the peaceful, and increasingly prosperous Kurdish and Shia Arab zones, is
growing, and very obvious. Sunni Arab tribes are taking sides, and going to war
with each other over the issue of working with the government, or supporting the
terrorists. That’s part of the problem with the deadlock over the new
constitution. The other problem is that many Sunni Arabs really believe that
they represent the majority of the population. Even those Sunni Arabs who know
better, believe that the Sunni Arabs deserve more power, and oil income, than
their 20 percent of the population justifies. The fact that Sunni Arabs have
called the shots for centuries is something the Sunni Arabs just cannot give up,
or at least not give up easily. At the same time, Sunni Arabs appear to be
clueless when it comes to confronting their blood soaked past, and the fact that
they grabbed most of the oil money for the past half century. Too many Sunni
Arabs believe that reality does not apply to them.
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