Robert Baer, ex-CIA official had some interesting observations on C-Span last night (
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:808...cord=567868237). One position he offered was that he thought Shia were much more pragmatic and could be negotiated with more easily than Sunni extremists- who he labeled as totally irrational. He posited that most Shia terrorists targeted military targets and took guidance from religious leaders, as opposed to Sunni terrorists who would just strap on a suicide vest whenever they felt like it and blow themselves up in a crowded cafe. He recommended pulling out of Iraq and A-stan and if a radical Sunni government took over a country we just bomb them back to the stone age...