Ritu wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
Personally, I think the best solution is to help Iraq turn
into three separate countries in a peaceful manner.
(One each for the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites.)
And how do you propose that be done? From what I can make out, most
Iraqis seem unhappy with the notion of a partition or two, and very few
areas contain just one ethnic group. So any such division is bound to
involve uprooting and dislocation of a lot of people. Given the high
emotional fallout of any such dislocation, and considering the somewhat
stressful conditions the Iraqis have already been living under, I rate
the chances of such an upheaval remaining largely peaceful as between
nil and zilch. Besides, such partitions not only give boost to sectarian
violence, they are almost always the cause of further unrest.
Ritu--
I maintain that a peaceful partition is better than
a decade of civil war, followed by the same division.
Yugoslavia, for instance, wound up partitioned. It's
not even clear to me that partitioning is bad per se.
Most of the problems seem to arise when various groups
are arguing about how a country should be partitioned.
If one can broker a "fair" partition, it could all be
fairly painless. I also think that minority groups
could avoid persecution, IF it was clear to all involved
that they were a minority. There are many instances in
history where minorities have been tolerated, even by
societies that one would hesitate to call enlightened.
It would be best for the Iraqi people,
I really don't agree. It would be a very messy situation even with the
best of planning and execution, and I doubt that either the planning or
the execution would be anything to write home about.
Wait a minute, I wasn't thinking it would actually
happen in Iraq. Certainly not with the present group
of "planners" who are running the USA! So I was
imagining competent planning and execution, since
this was a thought experiment.
Ritu
GCU Partitions Are Bad, Mmm'kay
---David
But sometimes better than the alternatives, Maru.
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