Marriage and Divorce Iraqi style

Submitted by Jay (United States), Dec 19, 2006 at 01:47

What the James Baker report doesnt do correct ly is listen to the Iraqi people. What the Iraqi people are saying is clear, And its democratic. not unlike the Muslims of India said before forming Pakistan and the components of Yugoslavia said before forming a half of dozen new countries is, we want to be independent countries.The three are Kurdistan,Sunni,and Shia.They are saying it but we're not listening.

The alternate is either a new strong man to hold all three together artificially, or civil war. In a long interim and "perhaps" forever, Kurdistan and Sunni can have a Czhecklaslovakia like unification whereby a line seperates the two ethnically but for joint self interest they stay as one. The merging of the Sunnis and the Kurds will mean making up with each other. And the border may need to be like a huge Croatia with its territory running along both Iran in the north and Saudi Arabia to the south.

This giant horseshoe with a middle, called Iraq, offers no more of a threat to Turkey as before, with only seperate southern Shia free to divorce.The United States can have a special relationship with this new Iraq of two. So can Nato. It can be the check to Iran and Syria and weigh down new Shia. But first the Sunnis and Kurds must make up.For their own sake

.As for things like oil and water, friends of Sunni-Kurd Iraq and the country of Shia can devise a proper split. And thats where American troops can verify. Marriages of two are hard enough to work. Marriges of three has been outlawed in the United States for years.

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