More to it than meets the eye ...

As we gin up for a war with Iran who purportedly supplied weapons to Iraqis who, in turn, killed about 160 American troops, why is no one asking the question? What of the other 2,900 some-odd American lives? How many of those were lost fighting the Sunni Insurgency?

The Sunnis, of the Sunni Triangle fame, are kith and kin to the Saudis. Aren’t the Saudis sending weapons into Iraq in support of their Sunni brethren in quantities and qualities as great and as deadly as those alleged weapons being sent into Iraq by the Shiite Iranians?

Why aren't we hearing anything about the Saudi support of the carnage? They support fundamentalist Islamist Madrassas all over the world. Saudi Arabia was home to the majority of the 9/11 hi-jackers. Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia, for crying out loud!

Anbar Provence, west of Baghdad, that nest of troubles we hear about on the nightly news is a Sunni area. It's home to al Qaeda in Iraq.

Is is possible that the Saudis, who have been free with their money in many pan-Islamic causes is somehow silent when it comes to a civil way between their Sunni brothers and the Shiite sect?

Now, I don’t want it to sound like I’m taking sides here but, I do think we should be very circumspect about how we further entangle ourselves in this donnybrook.

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Edit:
I e-mailed the above to some friends. Among the responses was one from a friend who "was there":

"It seems to me that, during the Viet Nam war, the North Vietnamese were supplied with weapons from both China and Russia, and yet we somehow managed not to go to war with those countries."