Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Monday, July 24, 2006
All But The Shouting
Via The Independent:
"Iraq as a political project is finished," a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: "The parties have moved to plan B." He said that the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties were now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad, where there is a mixed population. "There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into [Shia] east and [Sunni] west," he said.

Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, told The Independent in an interview, before joining Mr Maliki to fly to London and then Washington, that in theory the government should be able to solve the crisis because Shia, Kurd and Sunni were elected members of it.

But he painted a picture of a deeply divided administration in which senior Sunni members praised anti-government insurgents as "the heroic resistance".
I wonder how many Friedman's* it will take for the Cheney administration to accept this. Put another way, I wonder how many American soldiers will die before they get "it".

*For the uninitiated, Tom Friedman has said that "the next six months are key in Iraq" so many times, that a six month block of time is now called a "Friedman"
Written at 3:00 PM by Greyhair.
2 comments
2 Comments:
Blogger Lynne said...
With such differences in the population, I'm surprised Iraq stayed together as a country from World War I to now. It was only through brute force and as we are seeing now brute force doesn't last. Oppression does not work.

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck”—Frederick Douglass
5:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
They're finally coming to their senses. They don't belonged in one coherent state, they're just too different. Hussein knew this all to well. Similar situation in former Yugoslavia.
10:24 PM  
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