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It seems to me that if there is one place in this country where Romney’s “it’s about Shia and Sunni and a caliphate on top” ignorant belligerence will be received very poorly, it is in Iowa.  As many have observed, Iowa runs ahead of the country in antiwar sentiment.  Iowans generally don’t like interventionist wars, […]

It seems to me that if there is one place in this country where Romney’s “it’s about Shia and Sunni and a caliphate on top” ignorant belligerence will be received very poorly, it is in Iowa.  As many have observed, Iowa runs ahead of the country in antiwar sentiment.  Iowans generally don’t like interventionist wars, and most Iowa Republicans are fed up with Iraq.  Meanwhile, Romney’s foreign policy vision promises unending foreign conflict against any and every Muslim group whose name he can be trained to recite.  If there is any consistency between what Iowa Republicans say they want and how they vote (and there may not be), Romney should be in a lot of trouble.

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