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2004-04-25 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-25 12:39:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's pathetic that Brahimi is the best the UN has to offer. If he's so good, let him try to bring peace to his own country, Algeria, without turning the country over to the Islamofascist barbarians.

It's hard to believe that he has the best interests of either Iraq or the US in mind.

Posted by RWV 2004-04-25 1:25:33 AM|| 2004-04-25 1:25:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 well said. The bottom line is that if the Iraqi's are incapable of a representative democracy, then we have a responsiblity to carve them up into states that have a chance. It's looking more and more like the Islamic world..with their inability to separate church/state and the law... may not be advanced enough to have a pluralistic representative society. Ok..fine. So carve them up so that the Kurds can at least try...at least they seem to grasp the concept. Perhaps if we carve them up into separate states (Shia, Sunni, Kurdish) that don't have such radically competing interests from the onset, they might have a chance of success.

Posted by B 2004-04-25 1:52:03 PM|| 2004-04-25 1:52:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 one last point...I agree with someone who said that we should allow these groups to decide themselves where these lines should be drawn. Each power base already has their own leaders who will be more willing to settle for the number one slot of a smaller territory, than than face the fear their power being diluted in a pluralistic society. We shouldn't impose these boundries - but rather allow the current leaders to agree where the lines should be drawn.

Posted by B 2004-04-25 1:58:23 PM|| 2004-04-25 1:58:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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