[bert]

IMHO Iraq is de facto partitioned into Kurdish, Sunni and Shia regions already.

The same is true of Syria. Assad has lost the Kurdish and new Sunni region that extends into what was Iraq.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Yes. In fact what is happening is the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Iran are devolving into the separate tribal regions they were before the British and French recast them during and after the First World War as the Ottoman Empire finally dissolved. National boundaries were drawn by the French and British without regard to tribal or religious forces in place.

Going to be a bigger mess than ever and we need to steer clear.