02 Sep 05
Originally posted by zeeblebotcheck out www.electoral-vote.com
[red states vs. blue states] != [Shiites/Kurds vs. Sunnis]
[separate] != "serperate"
RHP guidelines are no users under 13, whose account did you hijack?
Originally posted by CliffLandin
okay, please elaborate.
(and for an interesting side note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum)
although some states are red, blue, barely red, barely blue, etc., blue staters and red staters are not shooting at each other. they are not even especially disparate. lots of voters would like to have had different choices, someone who matched their own preferences, but in the national elections the choice boils down to two. that doesn't mean the voters are especially different or antagonistic, irrespective of what we see on the forums.
the remnants of the Sunni Baathist regime are actively targeting Shiites. targeting of Baathists had also taken place immediately after the war.
this is more akin to the U.S. Civil War, which situation no longer exists.
if we do split up, you will be on the wrong side of the border 🙂 ...
02 Sep 05
Iraq itself is an artificial creation made by the French and British drawing lines on a map after WW I. If the people of Iraq wanted to split into seperate nations, I personally would have no problem with it. The rub is WHERE the boundary lines would be drawn; there is disputed territory around Kirkuk, with a lot of oil, that is claimed by the Kurds but is predominatly populated by Sunnis, allegedly due to policies of Saddam. It wouldn't suprise me in the end if the US imposed a de facto seperate Kurdish state; the Kurds wouldn't mind US troops there as they see them as protection against their enemies, particulary the Turks, who the Kurds would like to detach Kurdish populated areas of Turkey from.