Should we divide Iraq into two nations?

Question

North Vietnam-South Vietnam; North Korea-South Korea; East Germany-West Germany. If these people can not get along they should be split into two nations. I think this would solve the main problem in Iraq, but will greed and pride prevent this from taking place?

Answer 1

How about 3 nations? I don't think that the Kurds want any part of either of the other two; Sunni or Shiite. The Kurds seem to have the brains; they wanted to separate themselves years ago. America said it would help them but then we reneged on our promise & gave them nothing.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the geographic region of Iraq is largely based on a tribal / religious divisions. It would as if dividing NY city on a catholic / protestant basis given the Sunni / shite affair. Most would be included but some would be left out (IE., Jewish/ Muslim faith).
Whenever politics are concerned, here and abroad, greed and pride are at stake to some level. Vendettas are being settled. Old grudges are being carried out which are probably older than myself. Weapons are plenty and supplied by outside sources/ interests.
The Kurds of the north would like to form their own nation, but this may be at the cost of Turkey which has its own internal Kurd nation. Turkey would have to give up land for a geographical division.
Dividing this area into geopolitical regions would require the movement of peoples/ businesses/ mosques which most are not desirable. Try thinking of moving your family and friends across the country to satisfy a movement.

Answer 3

We have fought the good fight in Iraq in the hopes of establishing peace and democracy. To date, 42 of the "Iraqi's most wanted" in the deck of 52 playing cards are known dead or captured, and the others haven't been heard from in a long time.

There are as many rotten criminals among the Shia as there are among the Sunnis, so we can expect them to try and destroy each other just like the African Hutus and Tutsis did. We won't divide Iraq. They'll do it, if and when the Maliki government fails. Then they'll fight each other across whatever borders they try to claim.

We tried to do what most of us, Republican and Democrat, once believed and said that we had to do. Since then, unfortunately, it has been a matter of American political in-fighting.

One viable chance for peace is for the Maliki government to parcel out the Iraqi oil revenues equally to all on a per-capita basis. The Bush administration, which has never sought to take over Iraqi oil, would back this proposal. "Follow the money", because in the end, that's what it's all about.

Answer 4

NO, we should get out of Iraq, and let the Iraqis decide their own future. The US will never understand what goes thru the mind of someone from that part of the globe, we're just too different. We should allow them the freedom to rise up and run their own country, or fall on their faces and have another dictator like Saddam take power. It should be THEIR choice. Force feeding democracy leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.

Answer 5

Divide it up into 3: Kurdistan in the North, Shiastan, and Sunnistan in the south. Oil fields should be distributed according to population, so that everyone gets a piece of the oil pie.

Doesnt all this killing make you proud of being a human?

Answer 6

as good as an Idea that sounds, it will set a standard that will be hard to follow. Every nation with a rebel faction will then be expected to sacrifice a part of that country to the rebels. It would become further Chaos and would create more international strife than good. Sunni and Shiite quarrels go back further than we know, its just cos americans are getting caught in the middle that we know about it.

Answer 7

Not sure if that will work. If they were divided, and are enemies, they will do what they can to reach the other nation. Just like how they want to make a Palestinian state, the Palestinians were given land from Israel for peace, but yet the radical Arabs are still launching off rockets, still creating chaos against Israel. It is not about Peace anymore people, it is about religion and the land.

Answer 8

There are literally 3 communities contained in the rustic. There are the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis. in case you have been to chop up the rustic into 3 equivalent sections relative to group inhabitants, you will possibly actually create extra issues. you will possibly land-lock 2 of the three communities forcing them to handle the different to export any oil or different organic components obtainable to them of their element of the rustic, ultimate to extra conflict and struggling with. there is extremely no good answer to end the turmoil contained in the midsection east. this may be a non secular conflict that has been fought in one way or yet another for hundreds of years. no longer something in need of the 2nd coming of Christ or the completed destruction of the planet is going to make each and all of the numerous non secular communities on earth stop struggling with with one yet another.

Answer 9

virginia v. west virginia, an illegal seperation that had to be decided by the supreme court. who would you put in your north south iraq? how would you divide the natural resources? how would this prevent a civil war?

Answer 10

when did it become our right to decide how to divide a country up?
We fought N Korea......now they have WMD and threatens
We fought Vietnam......they still fight over there
We have been in Iraq now 3 years .......they are still doing what they were born into...fighting.......
our prayers should be for the troops....and then let this country do their own dividing