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moondust

(20,002 posts) Tue May 19, 2015, 10:46 PM May 2015

Should Iraq have been partitioned?

If so, is it too late now?

(Joe Biden says he never called for partition of Iraq)

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Should Iraq have been partitioned? (Original Post) moondust May 2015 OP

It should never have been squeezed into one country in the first place. Bonobo May 2015 #1

The whole ME map was drawn by European colonialists Jackpine Radical May 2015 #2

Bonobo

(29,257 posts)

1. It should never have been squeezed into one country in the first place.

Reply to moondust (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 10:46 PM

May 2015

So yeah. It would have helped.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

2. The whole ME map was drawn by European colonialists

Reply to Bonobo (Reply #1)

Tue May 19, 2015, 11:15 PM

May 2015

for their own political purposes with no thought whatsoever to ethnic considerations.

Anyway, if you're gonna partition it, a) the partitions better be bullet proof, and b) Who gets the oil?

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