Hi Goldworldnet--thank you for providing a meaninful response to my idea of partitioning Iraq into two separate nations. It seems few on this thread are capable of a constructive dialogue when it comes to new ideas. I appreciate your response.
Relative to what you wrote, it seems to me that short-term and prospectively long-term all we're going to see is intolerance unless some new thinking begins getting consideration. That Iraq, pre-invasion, was a secular society would make my idea possible. Granted, the larger and majority Shiite population was repressed under Sadam and didn't eactly share in that seculism, so why not give them the freedom to believe and govern as they wish in a separate nation.
Indeed, the Kurds should have their own nation. But with the powerful interests of Turkey, that just isn't going to happen. However, Turkey probably would support a nation where Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites represented greater equality in terms of the population mix.
You've got to consider that having Turkey and Iran aligned in a forward-thinking direction toward helping to solve the problem would help. The one thing that's always been lacking in the Middle East is stability. Any idea that moves the nations of that region into more stable environments, I'd think, would be welcome.
Anyway, some food for thought. |
