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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (282919)4/4/2006 6:49:16 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 1576336
 
This is along the lines of training the army in two months...Iraq is full of areas that are integrated and not ethnically distinct plus the Kurds in the north would quickly seeks to secede southern Turkey and unify a greater Kurdistan. I think this is a quick path to a full out conflict among the three regions and probably Turkey in the mix.

I've said they should be able to train Iraqis to do public security in two months, not to train their army in two months. Manning a checkpoint does not require 3 years of training.

Wouldn't the world and the Kurds be better of if the Kurdish part of present day Turkey were instead part of greater Kurdistan? And the Turks would put a barrier between them and the Iraqis. Seems reasonable and a win win all around to me.

And I agree there are some areas that are not easily divisible, but if the only other options is civil war (if that is the case), then you might as well reduce the number of people exposed to the civil war. Better to have 3-5 million Iraqis fighting each other rather than all 24 million.

Keeping the country as is is one option, but if they can't live peacefully together, you might as well separate it into regions that are stable and regions that are "other".
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