Who Stands to Lose in Iraq?: Not America

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/williams030206.htm ^ | Thursday, March 2, 2006 | J.B. Williams

[Anne_Conn]

Despite all the well known American successes in Iraq, sectarian religious infighting between Sunnis and Shiites now threatens the ultimate success and future peaceful self-governance of a nation on the edge of civil war. If the march towards peace and self determination as a free country fails, it will not be America’s loss, but rather that of the Iraqi people.

[GSlob]

With the population strongly split along tribal and religious identities, there is no such thing as "the Iraqi people", at least not yet. The conditions for the emergence of "the Iraqi people" as more than nominal entity could indeed appear after they successfully have their civil war, but only if that war leads to the extirpation or radical weakening of the aforesaid identities.

[paul51]

If they want peace and freedom now, they will have to learn the concept of being, collectively, Iraqi

[GSlob]

Their civil war could provide them with precisely that learning experience.