Exploring the Opposition Mind on Iraq: to the future

[Tribesman]

This issue hasn't got a lot(or none at all) of coverage

I beg to differ , it gets a hell of a lot of coverage . And not much of it is of a bright agreeable future nature .

may be kashmir, but it could also turn out to become like the separation of Norway and Sweden or, if noone are familiar with that, the separtion of ex-USSR provinces.

Hmmmmmmmm....bad anology there ,Chechnya , Osettia , Dagestan , Georgia , Armenia , Azerbaijan ...... and to a lesser extent Belarus and Ukraine , not to mention the crazyness with Tajik Uzbek Turkmen and Kyrgyz regimes .

[HoreTore]

I beg to differ , it gets a hell of a lot of coverage . And not much of it is of a bright agreeable future nature .


Hmmmmmmmm....bad anology there ,Chechnya , Osettia , Dagestan , Georgia , Armenia , Azerbaijan ...... and to a lesser extent Belarus and Ukraine , not to mention the crazyness with Tajik Uzbek Turkmen and Kyrgyz regimes .

I was thinking of the baltic states, ukraine and belarus when I wrote that. Sure, they've had some despotism and plenty of poverty, but none of them has seen a large armed conflict.

Can't really see what your point is here though, are you disputing the claim that states can't separate into smaller states without conflict?

BTW, I know fully well that the odds are against a relatively peaceful separation. That's not my point at all. My point, as the topic of this thread suggests, is that it is the best solution I can see to it. That means I rate it over withdrawing and leaving the iraqis to themselves and have the US troops there for another decade. It doesn't mean anything else, and I'm not saying that by doing things this way, all the people of the world sit in a circle and share hugs and kisses.

[Beren Son Of Barahi]

The 3 state solution will only work if a fair and just way of handling the revenues can be found....now comes the tricky part, how does one work out what is fair and just?....by popluation? by land size? in 3 equal parts? let them make their own contracts aka FFA every man for themselves?... if a country like Australia cannot work out a fair way of divvying up the money from the GST (goods and services tax) then how can Iraq possibly work out a fair system for oil money?



If they get it wrong, (and they most likley will...) it might look a little like this...