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More than 100 people were reported dead Thursday as the fierce sectarian passions unleashed by the bombing of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines raged unchecked, pushing Iraq closer to the brink of what many fear could turn into a full-fledged civil war.
Deepening the sense of crisis, Sunni leaders announced they are suspending their participation in talks with Shiite and Kurdish parties for a new government, saying it is "not acceptable to negotiate with people who are harming us."
I think it may be time to split Iraq into three countries. We can have Kurdistan, Sunnistan and Shiastan. I have never understood why we have shed so much blood to force people to live together who hate each other. The only way it ever worked was to have an SOB like Saddam Hussein crush dissent with an iron fist. Let's face it - the borders are an artificial invention in the first place. I have always thought that creating an Iraq where these three blood feuding groups were supposed to get along was a pipe dream. My gut feeling looks increasingly correct, as the sectarian, tribal conflict escalates.
It is sad to say, but it may be time to redraw the map. Of course, Bush would never consider this, because it would be seen as a failure. However, the bigger failure would be to spend billions of dollars and waste countless lives making an "Iraq" work that no one really wants.
4 Comments:
I agree, splitting Iraq might be a good idea. It seems to have worked for the former Yugoslavia, I think. Plus, splitting AMERICA might be a good idea, too. We could name it "Northern America" and "Southern America"! But you know if we did that, half the hicks would wind up in Brazil because they'd get on the wrong plane at the airport. ;-)
posted by Anonymous, at
2/24/2006 12:00 PM
LOL i was thinking the same thing chris when i read the blog. America could very easily be divided into 2 countries; but only if we could somehow get the west coast as part of the educated sophisticated libral northeast and let the south and midwest regress into a fundamentalist christian version of iran--unemployed, uneducated, brainwashed and broke.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/24/2006 2:05 PM
i'm sorry, "it worked for the former yugoslavia."
isn't that why it's the FORMER yugoslavia? because it DIDN'T work? you can't force groups of people who've been feuding for centuries to live side-by-side and then expect them to get along.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/29/2007 8:04 PM
