Iraq Poll - should we start promoting a Bosnia-like solution of ethnic federations ?

[LVZ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/opinion/01biden.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301419.html

We (Bush) broke it so what should be our role to help fix it?

[Scootaloo]

1. This is a job for Sir Archibald Mapsalot III!

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kovgs5/sir-archibald-mapsalot-iii

[Historic NY]

2. It might have worked, Biden talked a lot about the division of the ...

country. The British & French hold the main responsibility for the mess in the middle east didn't draw up boundaries based on the tribes, and religious sects living in them after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. The again the fight would be for the oil there, pitting those with the resource against those that don't....Then again three individual states might decide it is eariler to work together than having on ruling over all.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/turns-out-joe-biden-was-right-about-dividing-iraq-20140130

WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed Monday that Iraq be divided into three separate regions — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni — with a central government in Baghdad.

In an op-ed essay in Monday's edition of The New York Times, Sen. Joseph Biden. D-Del., wrote that the idea "is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group ... room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests."

The new Iraqi constitution allows for establishment of self-governing regions. But that was one of the reasons the Sunnis opposed the constitution and why they demanded and won an agreement to review it this year.

Biden and co-writer Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledged the opposition, and said the Sunnis "have to be given money to make their oil-poor region viable. The Constitution must be amended to guarantee Sunni areas 20% (approximately their proportion of the population) of all revenues."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-01-biden-iraq_x.htm


Well it might have worked, now ISIS makes new wounds that are not likely to heal.