Re: Sadr backs down in Iraq
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Partitioning Iraq is more complicated than it seems. Iraq is a country with artificial borders. In fact, nearly every country in the mideast has extremely artificial borders.
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Probably not a great analogy, because the two groups really were split along religious lines, but the India-Pakistan debacle provides some historical context.
[/ QUOTE ]I don't understand this analogy at all.
Pakistan was created out of thin air as the home to the subcontinent's Muslims. Entire populations relocated in order to populate the country. Then East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and West Pakistan broke in a bloody war of secession, with considerable Indian involvement.
How does this analogize with the situation in Iraq?
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Hence, I said it's not a great analogy, nor a direct analogy. But by splitting Iraq into three nations--presumably a Shia, Sunni, and Kurd nation--you will set up a de facto relocation debacle. Which still won't settle resentments between the religious sects regardless of an arbitrary border on a map.
Turkey isn't going to sit still for it, either.
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