Op-ed: Three Iraqs, not one Shlomo Avineri Saddam’s regime was merely the most extreme manifestation of the harsh underlying fact that Iraq’s geography and demography condemned it to rule by the iron fist. Nor has Saddam’s fall changed this fact America’s mounting difficulties in setting up a coherent form of government in Iraq, let alone a democratic one, inspire a question that most statesmen consider unthinkable: is it possible that there is no way to re-constitute Iraq as one state, and that alternative options must be considered, unpalatable as they may appear? Like so many problems in the re-birth of...