Of note, listening to MSNBC today yet again, lol, I heard a report, that is if I heard correctly, that Moqtada al-Sadr was visiting those who are in the hospitals and giving them money? Hezbollah anyone? Possible link? Watch the links. Are the dots starting to connect?

If the US administration had not disconnected themselves from the region this crisis would not exist in its current state. Now if the US wants to see any type of progress in that region they may have to rethink its Middle Eastern policy. This is what disengagement will bring. We may have disengaged ourselves out of the Middle East. The US position in the Middle East could become marginal at best unless they are willing to have talks with the groups that potentially could create alliances. Those groups being Hamas, Hezbollah, the Mehdi Army, and Iran. Above all the US needs to take ownership of the situation in Iraq. A mea culpa would do niceley.

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