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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: koan11/14/2015 8:52:35 PM
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I think the context for the ME turmoil is the Shia/Sunnie civil war. Everything going on is impacted by that tribal war e.g. Sunnie quietly supporting Isis, as a defense against Iran and their Shia.

When we disbanded the Sunnie army in Iraq, the Shia started revenging past Sunnie atrocities they endured. Inside Syria and Iraq, the Kurds are only just trying to protect their tribal lands and have little interest in the rest of the ME or the tribal war between Shia and Sunnie.

I feel the first thing to do is work out tribal boundaries and then with allies try to keep everyone in their own lands. That is how I would first attack the problem. It was what I proposed back in 08 i.e. break up Iraq. Had we done it then, we would not have the problems we do today. I felt in 08 that was so clear.

We have wasted much too much time trying to enforce those stupid old boundaries the British and others drew up. That has been stupid foreign policy from day one.

Biden saw it to. He has been a long advocate of breaking up Iraq. But he kept quiet. Had we done it when we could have done it , not under duress, it would have worked so much better.

We had many opportunities to start that process and instead we tied the hands of the Kurds by interfering in their oil pipelines. Trying to hold Iraq together. It was so dumb.
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