The 3 way partition of Iraq looks great on paper to Westerners who see Kurds in the North, Sunnis in the middle, and Shi’ites in the South+Baghdad.
What could go wrong?!
...but that’s the worst of all worlds because that removes the incentive for the Kurds and Shi’ites to police the Sunnis in the middle...Sunnis who have no oil in the middle. Iraq’s oil is in the North and South.
Leaving the middle to the Sunnis creates a defacto Sunni caliphate. Terror central. With no oil.
What do you think the Sunnis are going to do...left alone from the influence of Baghdad?!
Poof!
You just created ISIL’s dream state. Congrats! World terror just doubled because a 3 way partition looked good to stupid Westerners on paper.
No, you then cordon it off. And if needed, carpet bomb them all in one already blasted/worthless landscape.
Win/win.
The amount of “terror” as you put it cannot possibly “double”???
It can be better defined...Located, dealt with...
Do you thinking that Iraq, as it once was, is salvageable as a country, or sovereign nation, in the world???
Just curious...
And these are just the official fields. I've traveled in Babil province, in the central part of the country where no oilfields supposedly are and oil bubbles from the ground and pollutes fields.
I've long said the country is awash in oil. All that the 3 defacto Iraqi states need to do is come to agreement on oil export routes and refinery product access. Then they can all get rich and have cheap petroleum products for their people. We'll see if they can get along for such a clear advantage.