Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
If anyone can see a solution other than partition, they are more far sighted than me. And "partition" might mean "complete expulsion of the Sunnis to Saudi" I guess. Its that or a failed state.
Without years of further bloodshed there is probably no other solution. When you consider that the Iraqi state was a British Mandate and not a real nation anyway it makes a lot more sense. The only entity holding the whole thing together for the last 30 odd years was the Ba'athist regime, with it's collapse it has basically ceased to exist.