"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:


Would it be such a bad thing if Iraq unravelled into ethnic regions the
way that Yugoslavia unravelled into Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro?

Create a region in the north called Kurdistan. Carve out most of the
West and South and give it to the Sunnis. Give the East to the
Shia...and let them join Iran if they choose. And then bomb Iran.


Here's a scary thought for you. My intellectual underpinnings are strong
enough for me to understand that I am in no position to decide what is
best for the ordinary people of Iraq, and I know far more about that
country and the Arab world than George W. Bush did for at least the first
year of his presidency. I've visited several Arab countries, two for
extended periods, and almost went into an import-export business with an
Iraqi friend and an Egyptian friend, both Moslems, that would have been
built around the export of Iraqi agricultural products. The only place
Bush went prior to his ascendancy was Mexico.

You do realize that what you are proposing vis-a-vis the division of Iraq
is admission that the "Bush policy" is a failure.

Not really. If Bush came out and said "we're going to get rid of Saddam,
and then carve Iraq into three regions", do you think anybody would have
gone along?

It is more likely that this scenario was foreseen as an acceptable
possibility (heck, you and I mentioned it 3 years ago)...or perhaps it was
the plan all along.



As you know, I have said here for several years that I thought Iraq would
bust up into two or three separate mini-states.

And I stated that I agreed that the country would be better off split up.