There are three main ethnic/religious factions in Iraq. Each claims and occupies portions of the country. Some areas are hotly contested and have been the scene of some of the grizzliest massacres the Middle East has known over the last 50 years. The nations who fear a full blown civil war in Iraq, aside from the US, are Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Each has comitted substantial state resources to contain the escalating violence to Iraq proper, while at the same time using agents to stir their allies to press their claims more fervently.
The lessons of the segmentation of Yugoslavia are lost upon the US, its allies, the factions within Iraq and the neighboring states. Yet, there is no concerted effort being made to defeat the insurgent combatants (containment is not the same as defeating) and the violence, instablity and erosion of the central Iraq government accelerates. Water, power and sewer are more limited today than they were before the invasion.
2006-06-17
03:53:11
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