Should Iraq Be Partitioned?
Stephen Schwartz says no. Schwartz’s conclusion:
Ultimately, such policies cannot be decided from inside the Beltway. The future of Iraq remains with the Iraqis. It is somewhat strange to see experts in a place once identified with “realism” and the status quo, and now, often enough, with a critique of neoconservative democratization, suddenly embrace a plan for the partition of Iraq. Take it from someone who has spent 20 years involved with ex-Yugoslavia: partition is potentially more radical and destructive than democratization would ever be.
I do not quite see how the West can decide partition Iraq, without the approval of the, you know, Iraqis themselves. Of course, such a solution could work, but only if Iraqis themselves support it. Not because we in the West think that it will work.
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4 Responses to “Should Iraq Be Partitioned?”
Yes. The Kurds have never been Iraqi, and have been w/o a home, just as the Palestinians. Now, like the Am Indians, they have a source of wealth. Let’em have it, allow Turkey to expel all the Kurds that wanna leave, and strike up an agreement with Kurdistan, so that the US can retain power in the MIdeast.
BTW- the UK craeted Iraq and Iraqis, not the people living there, who consider themselves other ethnic groups- from Kurds and Turks to Arabs and Persians.
cosmoetica – I agree that the Kuds deserve their own state, just as the Palestinians do. However, it has to be limited to their present geographical area. Unfortunately, the Kurds ambitions are far greater and, as of now, they are not satisfied with leaving Turkey’s, Iran’s and Syria’s Kurdish territory alone. They want more than the people, they want the land to go with it. Look for many more decades of conflict on this issue. Kurds dream about Greater Kurdistan just as Israelis do about Eretz Israel.
What kind of fool presumes that partition of Iraq would necessarily be engineered within Washington?