Iraq Partitions Itself

Shiites Remake Baghdad in Their Image

This is sad. Too many Sunnis and Shiites can’t get along. So armed gangs kill each other to purify neighborhoods. How could this dynamic not have been clear to our experts on the ground over there? Why could it not have been possible to use the vast oil wealth of Iraq to pay each family to move to an ethnically pure district and avoid all of the bloodshed? Why is killing people who simply do not believe as you do more attractive than simply negotiating with them to leave? Why does reason not prevail?
How do we do business with people who enjoy killing adversaries?
How long does a moderate voice survive in that part of the world where the major religions of the world were born?