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Originally Posted by MSUber alles
Bingo.
This was the same situation like Yugoslavia after the USSR fell. Without a brutal strongman like Tito and the power of Moscow to hold everything together, we saw first hand how quickly groups that have hated each other for centuries would go back to killing each other en masse. Which is why they had to be split up and Yugoslavia no longer exists.
Once Saddam fell the US expected people who have hated each other's guts with a passion we'll never understand, to just join hands and live in harmony while singing "I'd like to buy the world a Coke". Of course that was just another of many mistakes GWB has made in this war.
Iraq should have been split into three sections and told "Everyone live in their part and leave the other alone and if you can't we'll fight for that group".
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Sorry, it's not that easy. Turkey never would have allowed a Kurdish homeland. I'm sure there are other considerations that would have made this a very difficult option.
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