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Iraq will end up a partitioned country,
one way or another
1.10.2007
By Jim Freeman
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October
1, 2007
If I have this right, Senator Biden seems to have
hit more of a nerve about whose idea it was then the
difficulty of Iraqi acceptance of partition. In the
“So you are going to divide our country” statement,
the you was more a problem than the divide our
country.
America is one of the only (maybe the only) nation
that has ever fought a civil war to hold itself
together. Yugoslavia doesn't count, it wasn't so
much trying to achieve that as to divide the spoils.
In most instances and certainly in Iraq, civil war
cannot possibly provide the country with a single
entity capable of holding it all together. Democracy
is no picnic to achieve, but you have to at least
start with people who want to build a nation
together.
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The Kurds don't want it
and neither the Shiites or Sunnis are powerful
enough to control the war-lords and Mullahs.
Only Saddam was capable of that, as only Tito could
hold Yugoslavia together.
So, Joe Biden (who is often criticized for his
candor) nailed it. Joe often nails it, but he is far
too straight a shooter to ever become president.
Obviously, the U.S. Senate doesn't control the Iraqi
Parliament--which can't control itself, which is the
real proof of a very stinky pudding. Unlike wine or
cheese, this pudding will not improve with age.
But Joe has done a great service by beginning a
dialog that Iraqis have thus far ignored. Truth is
(as far as truth can ever be known) Iraq will end up
a partitioned country--one way or another.
Jim Freeman op-ed pieces and commentaries have
appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune,
International Herald-Tribune, CNN, The New York
Review, The Jon Stewart Daily Show and a number of
magazines.
Opinion on article : U.S. Tries to Allay Anger Over
Iraq Partition Plan.
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/world/middleeast/01cnd-iraq.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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