"I am coming to the believe that the people representing the Sunnis in the constitutional drafting committee really want no constitution at all. Its either that or they have no comprehension of what a Democracy is all about."
The Sunni want a guaranteed share of the national oil revenue --- since they haven't any oil on most of their lands... while the Shi'a and the Kurds have most of it on their lands.
"Doesnt mean the country will split and in fact the Kurds GAVE UP on their right to split after 8 years as a compromise."
The Kurds still desire an independent Kurdish homeland (taking in Kurds in the eastern third of Turkey, parts of Iran, Syria, etc.) Because Turkey has promised to invade the minute they declare independence, the Kurds will move only incrementally toward that goal.
"The Sunnis are THREATENING CIVIL WAR if they cant have their own way, well, maybe their way is the WRONG WAY and maybe this matter will have to be decided on the field of battle once and for all."
Seems like you are coming around to my point of view.... A square peg can't be forced into a round hole.
"If it is, and if we give the Kurds and the Shia's a free hand it may just work out OK."
Yah, it would. And the sooner we remove ourselves from the middle of the civil war, the faster our strategic position will improve globally.
With the Iraqi Shi'a allied with Iran, and the Sunni supported by their compatriots in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states in the Gulf (which fear and suppress their own Shiite minorities), the civil war would remove the US from the gunsights, and turn into an internecine regional affair --- all better strategically for the US then the current state of affairs.
Ultimately, I predict that radical regimes on both sides would become discredited, and raproachement (after a realignment of borders) would emerge.
"I think, the coalition should withdraw to the BORDERS of Iraq and set up an impenatrable border and let the locals decide without the interference of outside forces on either side."
That would only delay the inevitable, and allow the US to be made the butt of all complaints from both sides... as well as being a colossal waste of national resources. A second half Trillion of debt loaded on the American public for this fargo would be an insane waste of resources. (You could 'fix' Social Security or Medicare for that kind of money....)
You want to be a 'do-gooder'? Then why not intervene militarily in Sudan, where 1/4 million have been massacred in the past three years.... |
