I definately think that the least violent way to settle what is going on in Iraq would be to partition it into three separate nations. There is so much conflict in the Middle East over religion, that it seems it would be best to simply make new countries that only have one religion. That way, there wouldn’t be so many problems caused over different ideas and beliefs. Also, the United States would be able to leave the situation soon and withdraw troops as soon as the new countries were formed and set up. A downside could be that there would be various wars between the new countries, or that the partition doesn’t happen very smoothly. As said by Ivan Eland of the San Francisco Chronicle…
Many opponents of decentralization or partition use the example of the civil war during the break up of Yugoslavia. Yet that is not the only model. Czechoslovakia and most of the Soviet Union broke up peacefully. The citizens of artificial countries often want self-determination because other groups within the country are trying to rule them or don’t recognize their culture, language or religious preferences.
This idea is also more practical compared to increasing the amount of troops or just taking them out of Iraq all together. This is because we wouldn’t have to have a draft of some sort passed, and our country would not be targetted as a nation that only caused more problems in the middle east. Leaving now would show that we lack courage and give the US a bad reputation. A partition would definately help the situation, however, and basically everybody would win.
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1 mellyl00 // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:44 am
I can see how you think dividing Iraq may seem like an organized solution, but don’t you wonder if that would just make the country even more segregated? We don’t have these divisions in America, so there would be border conflicts, and the troops would not be able to leave rigth as the divisions were made. We would still need some sort of control to keep things stable until we’re sure that the country(ies) would be secure. Then you would also have to worry about new governments, regulations, and policies for each of the three partitions.
2 Lexi // Nov 22, 2006 at 11:30 am
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you made some really good points about what is going on in Iraq, but i dont really agree with all of them. The whole reason that people are fighting in iraq is because they have different beliefs and they believe that thier group should have all of the power, and all of the land. So, i thik that even if we divided the country into three parts, people would still fight over who has the power and who gets the most land