Hi Chris, On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Chris Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> So why is it that this country cobbled together after WWI should remain > together? I suppose that the Western governments of the time created the > nation state called Iraq, so I suppose that Western governments have a > responsibility to maintain it or help it split into 3 countries, but > self-governance by the Kurds, the Shiites, and the Sunnis seems to make the > most sense to my simple mind that looks at this from afar. There is a huge > humanitarian crisis going on with displaced minorities (including ancestral > Christians). Without the radicalization created in response to Western > intervention and meddling, perhaps things would be going better over there > now. Just speculating. The problem is oil. Not our desire for it, theirs. Right now Iraq as a whole benefit from oil (more or less) but it is geographically concentrated in certain regions. Everybody wants self-government, but nobody wants to give up their share of the oil revenue. That is why there HAS to be a political solution, or else the new nations will just invade each other over oil revenues. Note that the oil money is apparently what ISIS is smart enough to target, even if only as a proximate goal. -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
