Suerreal
9/30/2007, 09:29 PM
And can it be made to work in Iraq?
As I understand, other than naïveté on the part of the US administration which would prefer to see a united democratic Iraq, the two major stumbling blocks to breaking up Iraq into smaller, mostly autonomous, more homogenous geographic districts are:
1. Sharing oil revenue, since oil fields are in the Southern, mainly Shiite areas, and the northern, mostly Kurdish areas, and not in the central, mostly Sunni areas.
2. Opposition to giving the Iraqi Kurds their own territory for fear of creating unrest among Kurdish people living in Turkey and Iran demanding their own territory to merge with the Iraqi Kurds to create a new Kurdistan (although Turkey & Iran would be perfectly happy for their Kurds to leave to move to Kurdish areas of Iraq.)
3. Filler item because a list should always have at least three items.
But I do believe these obstacles can be overcome. Why isn't this on the drawing board?
As I understand, other than naïveté on the part of the US administration which would prefer to see a united democratic Iraq, the two major stumbling blocks to breaking up Iraq into smaller, mostly autonomous, more homogenous geographic districts are:
1. Sharing oil revenue, since oil fields are in the Southern, mainly Shiite areas, and the northern, mostly Kurdish areas, and not in the central, mostly Sunni areas.
2. Opposition to giving the Iraqi Kurds their own territory for fear of creating unrest among Kurdish people living in Turkey and Iran demanding their own territory to merge with the Iraqi Kurds to create a new Kurdistan (although Turkey & Iran would be perfectly happy for their Kurds to leave to move to Kurdish areas of Iraq.)
3. Filler item because a list should always have at least three items.
But I do believe these obstacles can be overcome. Why isn't this on the drawing board?