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"America ponders cutting Iraq in three" 
This is what I recommend long ago.

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Sometimes I wish somebody would trisect you......that way the rest of us mere mortals won't have to feel so inadequate.

Have you rediscovered the theory of relativity yet today Mike?

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The only problem is exactly where the lines would be drawn because valuable oil fields could be put in one sector or another depending on the exact division.   The Sunnis area would turn into one that would become like former Iraq,.but they would control a much smaller region and much less oil wealth than Saddam controlled.  They would be left much less powerful, and no threat to any other country in the region.  Turkey would be very upset, because they fear a Kurdish state on their border.   The part of Turkey that borders on Iraq is comprised mostly of Kurds.  A Kurdish state on their border would cause those Kurds to rebel to join their fellow Kurds, and make an even larger state.  Turkey would lose land.  Turkey gave us minimal help during our invasion of Iraq, so we don't owe them much.  They have otherwise been a loyal ally, but the Kurds would be a greater ally. We allowed their slaughter following our pull out from Iraq the first time around. Iraqi Shiites will probably be neutral to us as long as they are led by Ayatollah Sistani.  If Sadr gains power we may gain another enemy, but he has been pretty quite these days since we beat his forces in Sadr city.  If we do attack Iran and cause regime change there, the US may have a lot less to fear.  Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.  Syria will be isolated.  And the Muslim world will no longer have a state that is hyper-militant.

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"America ponders cutting Iraq in three" 
This is what I recommend long ago.

Have they asked the Iraqis what they want?

Cutting Iraq in three is as good as defeat because it will rejig the region's power balance without knowing the consequences.

 
I communicate with Iraqis on the Internet all the time, and this would be satisfactory to the one's I spoke with.   They also don't understand why Bush didn't do this in the first place.   The Kurds want it, the Shiites want it, and the Sunnis want it, because they can't get along with each other and have very little in common..   The only problem is exactly where the lines would be drawn because valuable oil fields could be put in one sector or another depending on the exact division.   The Sunnis area would turn into one that would become like former Iraq,.but they would control a much smaller region and much less oil wealth than Saddam controlled.  They would be left much less powerful, and no threat to any other country in the region.  Turkey would be very upset, because they fear a Kurdish state on their border.   The part of Turkey that borders on Iraq is comprised mostly of Kurds.  A Kurdish state on their border would cause those Kurds to rebel to join their fellow Kurds, and make an even larger state.  Turkey would lose land.  Turkey gave us minimal help during our invasion of Iraq, so we don't owe them much.  They have otherwise been a loyal ally, but the Kurds would be a greater ally. We allowed their slaughter following our pull out from Iraq the first time around. Iraqi Shiites will probably be neutral to us as long as they are led by Ayatollah Sistani.  If Sadr gains power we may gain another enemy, but he has been pretty quite these days since we beat his forces in Sadr city.  If we do attack Iran and cause regime change there, the US may have a lot less to fear.  Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.  Syria will be isolated.  And the Muslim world will no longer have a state that is hyper-militant.

I never rediscovered relativity, though I suspect we don't interpret it correctly. I think light doesn't travel at any speed.  I think light is stationary.   I think everything else is moving near lightspeed including us.  At this point I'm a nobody, and will probably remain a nobody.  But the fact that I am so often mocked and ridiculed gives me a ray of hope that someday that may change.

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"America ponders cutting Iraq in three" 
This is what I recommend long ago.

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Sometimes I wish somebody would trisect you......that way the rest of us mere mortals won't have to feel so inadequate.

Have you rediscovered the theory of relativity yet today Mike?