Since the Shittes and Kurds don't want to be apart of a unified Iraq, should we parition the country? Better yet, CAN we do such a thing?
Note: Parition is a idea that involves breaking Iraq into three or more parts, which would allow the Sunnis, the Shittes, and the Kurds to rule their own territory.
2006-10-24 06:20:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I think the decision is being made for us. They are just fighting now to define the boundaries.
The government in Iraq doesn't do much in the way of governing right now. If we were to announce we were going to partition, they would step up the fighting to set the final boundaries.
I agree with you that we don't have the ability to shape things on the ground anymore. There was a time that it might have been the best solution, but I believe it would have harmed our relationship with the Turks, and it would have also admitted the fact that our initial ideas weren't working.
2006-10-24 06:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by Dentata 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seems like a bad strategy. About as bad as cutting and running. If ever Iraq is partitioned, it will be because the US cut and run. The US can never manage the formation of three new countries. It would be the Iraqi warlords themselves (they may not be warlords yet but they will be) who would cut and slice the country into pieces and there will be more bloodbath.
Maybe America should vocally call for help from its Muslim allies. The situation calls for manpower that can keep the civil disorder in check. Manpower that is not such an appealing target for jihadic snipers and bombers, especially if they can't tell if a particular Muslim soldier is Shiite or Sunni. What kind of jihadic hero would return to his country-of-origin bragging of 21 kills -- 7 crosses/stars and 15 crescents!?
If the US asks its Muslim allies quietly for help, they'll get quietly turned down, because, frankly, the US has no real Muslim allies. They all probably would like the US to lose face and run with its tail between its legs even if it means another half-a-million of their fellow Muslims perish in the ensuing power struggle.
Maybe it should be the UN who should do the calling. If not maybe the US can open its embassies in Muslim nations to recruits willing to fight "the great hatred within Islam," save Muslim lives in Iraq, give force to the voice of Muslim moderation, not to mention gain US citizenship and a generous cash bonus for their families. They need not be trained to be soldiers, just policemen and security guards. Maybe these guys can even fly a new flag that is a combination of the Islamic crescent and the UN symbol.
2006-10-26 06:32:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats what the area was like before the British and French glued it all together to make a country called Iraq less than 90 years ago.
The trouble is that Turkey would attack the Kurds which they have been itching to do for years, Iran would annexe the Shi'ite south as the Marsh Arabs would love them to do.
And the Sunnis in the middle would starve to death because the countries only decent export with which to run an economy (oil) is in the Shi'te and Kurdish bits.
2006-10-24 14:13:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iraq is a "manufactured" country, anyway. I'm pretty sure that it was carved from the Ottoman Empire by the Brits after WWI. What they did was to draw a line encircling ethnic groups that hated each other's guts and steal their oil while they were all fighting. I don't think it would be such a bad thing to let them go their separate ways.
2006-10-24 13:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by Klawed Klawson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that's the only way for the time being that anything going to end some of the violent. It's a shame that they are so bent on hatred, that if not killing us they are killing each other. I for one do not believe we should be there in the first place but having said that now we must win and I am a Democrat. You can't just leave these people to kill each other, that would not be right.
2006-10-24 13:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by donaldtapscott@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snowy pretty much summed it up, keeping a shot at the oil revenue is the only reason the Sunnis supported an Iraqi government.
2006-10-25 05:20:34 · answer #6 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not?
the British partitioned Kuwait out of Iraq 50+ years ago; it was easier to keep control over little Kuwait.
2006-10-24 13:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not our country, we don't own it, why would we impose our will on people we don't know? Oh, I forgot, Lord Vader Bush makes the decisions for everyone, and he is infallible.
2006-10-24 13:28:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure. A linux, a unix, and a windows partition should work. :)
2006-10-24 13:25:49 · answer #9 · answered by Your Best Fiend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nup. just like kosovo is divided cos of forghn intervention, its not a good idea
2006-10-24 13:25:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋