Will Iraq Eventually Be Divided Into Two Or More Separate Countries?

[arwalden]

[still_one]

1. after a long and bloody civil war

Iraq will be governed by a Shia theocracy which will eventually become part of Iran

[kentuck]

2. Good question and the answer is...:

Probably. The Kurds would do it today if it were politically possible.

[demosincebirth]

8. The Turks will never allow an independent Kurd Nation

on their borders.

[bullimiami]

3. probably should have been originally.

takes a strongarm dictator to hold it together.

we should have divided it immediately into a loose confederation of 3 relatively independent states with a weak central government.
then we should have pressed for equal rights and treatment of all ethnicities in all states, ie a bill of rights.

instead we raped and pillaged our way to the current horror show.

[jaredt112]

10. Articles

We tried the same thing in America with the Articles of Confederation. It didn't work very well, and a weak central government rarely works. This would just let the 3 states build up their own armies, which would ultimately make a civil war even more possible then it is today.

[MadMaddie]

4. Before England meddled in the country we now know as

Iraq...

The three tribes had their own borders...they warred with each other constantly for hundreds of years.....

[Tesha]

5. Without a doubt. (NT)

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

6. Read the book, "Paris 1919". Talks about the arbitrary borders in the ME

Iraq is a pretend country created by the powers that be after WWI. The only thing holding that place together was a dictator...those groups HATE each other.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Iraq is a lot like the old Yugoslavia, a country in name only

with the various factions held together only by a strong-arm monarch or a strong-arm politician like Tito or Saddam.

Once Tito left the scene, the various factions splintered and formed their own countries, ie. Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, etc.

Methinks it will be the same with Iraq, into 3 countries:
1) predominantly Sunni
2) predominantly Shiite
3) predominantly Kurd

:smoke:

[adriennui]

9. now is the time to do it and let's get out

let's avoid any additional bloodshed. they despise each other....it is what it is and always has been.