[Vision2020] What is it good for?

[thansen@moscow.com]

Question:  Who will be so wise as to graciously "carve up" Iraq fairly and just?

Tom Hansen
Moscow

> Having said all this, I don't think that it's an impossible situation.
> Many
> problems can be averted by wisely carving up geographical areas and
> taking
> ethnic and religious issues into consideration. Americans generally
> don't
> understand this because we don't have warring religious factions in the
> USA.
> Many ignorantly think that all you can have a country of Arab, Kurd,
> Turkoman ethnicity and of Muslim (Shi'ite or Sunni), Christian, Mandean,
> Jew, or Yezidi religions and just tell them to "get along". It ignores
> 1,500
> years of religious animosity in the process.  
>  
> Best,
> Dale
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Ramalingam [mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 10:56
> To: dale@courtneys.us; vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] What is it good for?
> 
> 
> 
> Dale wrote:
> 
> "It will be interesting to see what happens when the lid comes off. I
> don't
> think *anything* can keep this together without creating a Kurdish
> nation in
> the north and Shi'ite nation in the South."
> 
> Good point, and one of the reasons Bush I did not proceed into Baghdad
> in
> Gulf War I.  (If Jenna becomes Prez, does that mean we'll have Gulf War
> III?
> And who will get bombed?)  Are we 'creating' West Germany or Japan, or
> watching a new Yugoslavia fall apart?  And what did the Administration
> reasonably expect when they decided to go to war last summer?
> 
> Sunil  
> 
> 
> 
> 
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