Reply #13: that's history . . . .I'm looking to the future [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

I know the bushnazi administration doesn't want self-government in Iraq -- that's a given.

I'm more interested in possible scenarios for halting the bloodshed on all sides, not just Iraqi on U.S. or U.S. on Iraqi. I'm talkin' Sunni vs Shiite, Kurd vs. Turk, etc.

IIRC, Tito held the various states of Yugoslavia together under pretty autocratic rule and left little structure in place to continue the amalgamation after his death. But I could be wrong; some of my history of that period is admittedly tainted by my then-repuke education.

My suggestion that the various factions establish their own autonomies would be analogous, perhaps -- PERHAPS --, to the autonomy grasped by the separating Soviet republics.

Remember that most of the "countries" of the Mideast are artificial creations born out of the rubble of World War I and the simultaneous geo-political collapses of the Ottoman empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Russian empire. Many of their ethnic loyalties are much older and stronger than words like "Iraq" and "Syria."