"Wasn't there a published poll recently that said that 70% of the Iraqis don't want their country split up? Does that count or mean anything?"
Yes, I think that was also called the CONSTITUTIONAL ELECTION.
Geez, this is not good news if it becomes another exercise in State Dept style handwringing.
There is violence in Iraq because violence terrorists are making it so. Break Iraq up and they still will be there.
Far better if we simply left Iraq to a strongman dictator. I hate saying that, but these kooky ideas that ignore what Iraqis themselves want are dangerous.
Partition is dangerous because it would leave a rump Kurd state that will agitate turkey, a rump Sunni state that will harbor terrorists and a rump Shiite state that will be under Iran's influence ... how does that help us *at all*? It doesnt! Biden is a block head and so are those who take this kind of colonial line redrawing seriously. Let Iraq decide!
"Yes, I think that was also called the CONSTITUTIONAL ELECTION. "
Thank you. (though I think there was also a poll just a week or 2 ago confirming that they didn't want their country split up)
I agree. The Iraqi's need to make the decision. And their strength against outsiders is in staying unified.