[news] U.S. Courting Iraqi Resistance to Balance Influence of Pro-Iran Shi'ites

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

U.S. concern about the pro-Iranian leanings of the militant Shi'ite parties that will dominate the next government has grown as the administration presses a campaign to take Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council, with the military option "on the table." A Western diplomat told Associated Press that the United States needed to find "some other allies who will not turn against them if things heat up with Iran"...Even the possibility of a separate peace between the United States and the Sunni insurgency, which is inherent in these negotiations, signals to the Shi'ites that the United States is no longer wedded to the option of supporting Shi'ite military and police.

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