[Zhang Fei]

Dumb Question: how's that going to help the situation? Won't the 3 new 'provinces/countries/nations' just keep fighting each other? They hate each other's guts, so what's to prevent them from continuing the war? And the Shit-ites are the ones aligned with Iran and Syria in terrorism, aren't they? Won't they keep attacking the other two?

The Kurds don't want all of Iraq. They're like Slovenia. The Shiites may want all of Iraq, but they have to go through Sunni Iraq in the center to get to Kurdistan. Sunni Iraq is too busy trying to prevent the Shiites from overrunning them to fight the Kurds. Bottom line is that once we get a few states running and start doing the kinds of population transfers we did at the end of WWII, things will settle down. Defending borders is easier than doing garrison work. The states of the former Yugoslavia aren't really doing much fighting, are they?

[BigBobber]

They will all want to a share of the oil wealth. That will be the tricky part of making this work.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"Defending borders is easier than doing garrison work."

Good point...

[munin]

So now we are back to Sumer in the south, Akkad/Babelonia in the middle and Assyria/Gutium in the North.
What a concept? Abraham would likely have recognized this.
Seems I made this suggestions as the only solution that would work back in 2002, hope they do it

[MrLee]

Turkey doesn't want an independant Kurdish nation on their border, if I remember right.