I will think about it some more, but the obvious political play would be to claim that Bush caused civil war
Seems like a good idea to me, anything that stops these nuts from killing each other.
Find out where the oil fields are? Follow the money trail.
Think of East and West Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Flag makers. Three times as much business.
SD
According to this guy, one other thing that makes this such a goofy idea is that most of Iraq's population is largely secular -- which means there has been so much intermarriage between these various sects that a large portion of the population doesn't even fit into a single category. If someone has a Sunni father and a Shi'ite mother, then where does he live?
The very notion that such an arrangement would include "an equitable share of the oil revenues" makes it inevitable that it would never function as a viable group of nation-states, since the only way to guarantee this kind of "equitable share" would be to put these three states under the authority of some kind of outside governing body.
In other words, this arrangement would be a "New World Order" globalist's dream.
I s'pect -- This is more about Joe hearing Joe talk...
...and Joe watching Joe appear in the media to blather and bloviate
Joe is a maverick-McCain wanna-be.
He drop-kicks these par-boiled, half-inflated, self-aggrandizing my-thought-ologies in the general direction of the cut-&-run goal line to see if they will fly...
This is much less about Biden as a visionary....
...Or Biden as a well-connected politician with cronies ripe for profits in this balkanization...
It is all about Joe getting his own face time & photo-op...
In order to assuage his grand ambitions for '08...
IMHO
Three new, tiny countries that hate each others guts, hate some neighbors with equal ferocity and the US, at least to some extent.
Who would profit? Well, the arms merchants, for one. The folks who buy and sell governments to get to thier natural resources for another.
Third - I dunno, maybe as suggested, flag makers, folks who sell printing presses for new money, airlines as the current residents flee for thier lives.....
I think Joe Biden's scalp and hair plugs should be divided into three vulcanized areas in order to let some air to his brain.
What's wrong with dividing Iraq? It was the solution we used in Germany (in to an East and West plus a separate Austria), Korea (into North and South), India (into India and Pakistan (and Pakistan into Pakistan and Bangladesh)), the Soviet Union (into Russian and the CIS), Yugoslavia (into the Balkan states) among others. If partition was a good enough solution for all those states, why not Iraq?
You can pump more oil in a monolithical region with a well-defined border, than in a hodgepodge of sectarian enclaves where nothing is safe anywhere.
I am not sure it is a bad idea.
The UN. Who do you think would end up overseeing "an equitable share of the oil revenues"?
Here's my take,Gene: Ignore everything said by Joe Biden.