“There was a bit of disappointment by some of us in the Commonwealth when India was partitioned. But in retrospect, it is perhaps fortunate. India does not have Pakistan and Bangladesh as festering sores within its body politic.”
Do you see a commonality with the situation in Iraq? It would be “easy” in many ways to partition Iraq, and then let each partition then form its own alliances and government.
India benefited from decades of British parliamentary rule before independence. Iraq didn’t have self rule for centuries (Turks, etc) before they got independence, and obviously they’ve struggled to rule themselves.
“India benefited from decades of British parliamentary rule before independence. “
What nonsense. Benefited?!! How? India was an Empire under the Viceroy not under any parliamentary democracy.
The Brits left behind a shitty legacy of what exactly not to do in Iraq.