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To: PartyTime who wrote (182595)	2/28/2006 12:44:56 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The key, in my opinion, is to get the population that will participate in a democracy closer in demographics. PT.. you're giving 80% of the country's oil reserves to a completely Shi'a led government the S. East part of Iraq, and forcing the Kurds to share their 10-15% with the Sunnis of the Anbar province... That's a "recipe for success"?? No, buddy... Iraq might have been an artifically created nation/state carved out of the Ottoman Empire, but there is a FIERCE Iraqi nationalism that exists and needs to be cultivated in competition to the tribal and religious jingoists who seek to "divide and conquer".. The answer, my friend, is NOT to encourage jingoism, but to the foster tolerance, compromise, and cooperation as a foil to the divisive and intolerant agendas of the militants. You arbitrarily split Iraq up into ethnic/religious enclaves and you're setting up a scenario where there will be decades of fighting over economic and geographic resources. Btw, how do you think the Shi'a will like it when they discover that the Sunnis have control over all of their water from the Tigris and Euphrates? Hawk

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