Do you think a way to solve the problem in Iraq, would be to divide the country up into three, for each sect?

Answer 1

i think it may for a short time. after a while though, each division will want more.

Answer 2

It kind of already is divided into three different countries, unofficially. Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the West/Northwest, and Shiites in the East/Southeast. The split happened after the US invasion when the insurgency/civil war started and people migrated to the territory of their "own kind". There has been a lot of talk about possibly letting each sect govern their own territory without breaking up Iraq but the bottom line is that the Iraqi Sunni and the Iraqi Shiites will keep fighting until one side has won no matter what the US military does and if/when the majority Shiites win that war they'll only be two sects left in Iraq, Kurds & Shiites and the Kurds will create their own nation and the Shiites will get the rest of Iraq. The only problem is the US military won't let the Shiites and Sunni settle the civil war and that is a big problem.

Answer 3

It might work, but only until one sect wanted more land or all of Iraq. Then they would be right back where they are.

See the problem is that the sects want to wipe each other out completely, so just giving them a section of land isn't really going to solve the problem completely. Plus you would have several people that would have to relocate to the place set out for their particular sect, and some of them will not go peacefully if they go at all.

You would essentially have to create three new countries, and even then they would still be at war. If that were to happen it would then become more of a large scale battle than just the skirmishes that are happening now.

Answer 4

It would cause problems because (shaqes) or tribal leaders would fight over which sections to take over. My brother says there's like 5 to 20 shaqes per city , well major ones anyway like Baghdad and Muasuel. It would end up creating more confusions for our army to figure out. It would also make the country weaker considering Iraq would have to split what resources it has into 3 divisions(oil probably wouldn't be a problem, but food, military supplies, manpower would become an issue. That is if Iran would plan an invasion. If they would, waiting for Iraq to be split up would be the moment to strike. During this divisional movement , if Iran or some other nation or terrorist/tribal group where to attempt an invasion it would take some time to organize the Iraqi military forces. Especially when it came to mobilization.

Answer 5

Yes, I actualy believe that should have been done a long time ago. but too many of Iraqs neighbors, mainly Turkey, Saudi and Kuwait don't want that, Iran probably would have been fine with it because they could have started fermenting trouble long ago, but I think it would have worked better, and the problems with the insurgency and sunnis and shiites being at each others throats would be much less. If anyone has noticed, the Kurds have benefited the most from all this even without a split. Theres no fighting in Kurdish territory, they have managed to arm themselfs, and the others leave them alone.

Lana Sand-Very good point about the oil, and they are all watching that very close, kurds, sunni & Shiite alike!

Answer 6

There is no good way. And, Iraq cannot be successfully divided into three separate regions. In fact, there are some bad days ahead for the Kurds.

Dividing Iraq this way has never been a possibility and will never happen for the following reasons:

1. Turkey will never allow it. I do not mean just that they will not like it – I mean they will go to war to prevent it. Their dance with Bush about whether they would join his coalition of the willing revolved around their insistence on being allowed to assume the role of ‘pacifying’ northern Iraq. Of course, what they meant by pacify’ was ‘exterminate the Kurds’. When Bush said no, they bailed out. Bush then tried to bribe them with cash, but they were not interested. If they could not kill Kurds they did not want to play – period.

2. Syria wants the Kurds dead as well, and will not pass up the opportunity to join in once the Kurd-killing begins.

3. In fact, no one in the region likes the Kurds – so, they are dead.

4. The Kurds sit on oil-rich northern Iraq soil, and there is no way the rest of Iraq lets them keep it. The only thing that will unite the Shi’a and Sunni will be a temporary alliance to kill the Kurds and reclaim the oil fields. (After that, they will resume their own war.)

This the reason the Kurds are (the only group) that is happy to have us in Iraq.

5. The oil in northern and southern Iraq is a tempting target for every country in the region.
When it became apparent that America was definitely going to invade Iraq, some countries in the region (and from as far away as India) began openly discussing how this resource should be allocated.

6. The internal religious, ethnic, and political tensions in Iraq are greater than most Americans have been told. As brutal and ruthless as Hussein was, it may have been the only way to hold the country together. After all, how do you stop 25,000,000 people who are determined to have a civil/religious war? And, there are more than just three groups (as if that were not enough). There may be twice that many factions actually fighting for power, and the situation is far to complicated and uncertain to be managed in any kind of reasonable way.

Colin Powell knew this and it is what he meant when he told Bush (regarding his pending invasion of Iraq) ‘if you break it, you won it”.

Bush’s father knew this as well as wrote about it in his book ‘A World Transformed’:

•...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.”


How bad is the situation in Iraq, when Iraqi’s (excluding the Kurds who are safer as long as we are there) say life was better and more secure under Hussein’s rule than it is now under US control.

Bush should have known better. No unbiased Middle East expert gave the administration’s more than a 50 percent chance of realizing any success at all – and there were only a few experts who gave it this much (the same as a coin toss) of a chance.

There is no good plan and there is no upside for America in this mess – there never was and there never will be. The sooner we dump the responsibility for Iraq’s future onto some regional/international group(s), the better off we will be.

Answer 7

that would work except that one sect (the Sunni) would have all the oil and money and the Shea the largest sect would not put up with that. Oh and they don't all live in the same place.

This would be kinda like segregating the US. There are neighborhoods that are mainly one or another but they all live near each other, the city's are like this the small towns are mainly one or another sect. Their are also tribes with in each sect, where do you stop dividing?

Answer 8

No...
David We can't make that desision & it wouldn't work. You can't eat sand. Drawing a line on a map and saying you get this or that solves nothing. There are 2 different things going on. The insurgents. They ae just out to kill everybody. Us, the Iraqi's, the UN, anybody.... The no land solution will change that. In the same way giving up Gaza solved nothing. The other part is the inter religous violence. That is blood feud stuff. You kill my cousin, & blow up your house. Again, land is not going to solve that. Last, but not least. The oil fields are in the kurdish North. Until you figure how to spilt the money, your plan has no chance. As I said, you can't eat sand.......

Answer 9

This is there plan from the beginning. Read Grand Chessboard.
Read PNAC. We need to get out of IRAQ now. We need to make
peace in the area, if Bush wants a chance to have some influence
in this part of the world in the future. We are in trouble!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

You are a genuis!