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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188363)	6/5/2006 11:37:31 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The solution to Iraq is complex and it has been made even harder by the huge mistakes made in the process. I don't think you can fix the problems one by one, rather they have to be solved all at the same time (or at least most of them at the same time). The best possible solution you could have had in Iraq after the invasion was to partition the country into 4 regions. 3 of them along the natural ethno-geographic lines and the 4th around Baghdad as an "independent". The Sunni region could well have made their money through some profit sharing of oil and mostly through pipelines going from Kurdistan to the Mediterranean Sea. It is much harder to establish this now, but it still remains the best solution. If I were in charge, I'd leave the internals of Iraq to Iraqis and concentrate on sealing the borders and making sure that other countries are not drawn into the Iraqi civil war. There will be a blood feud but it would eventually exhaust itself. At that point I'd force the above solution on the exhausted "victors".