On The Topic of Dividing Iraq Into More Easily Digestible Pieces

When will the Bush administration wake up and realize that Iraq is a lost cause as a nation? I'm certain that at least one aide or advisor has mentioned to W the origins of modern Iraq. We have the former British Empire to thank for that beautiful piece of nation building.

You say that you are not familiar with the history of the poop hole currently known as Iraq? Well, come sit on my lap while I give you a brief lesson in history.

Just after World War I the League of Nations granted the area that would become Iraq to the United Kingdom and they proceeded to name the area Al-Iraq. As you should now know, there are several different ethnic and religious groups who inhabited this region and without taking into consideration how these various groups got along, our good friends the Brits simply plopped down a map and drew some lines and called the whole mess Iraq.

In 1932 Iraq was granted it's independence and from then until the late '60's the country went through several miserable rulers until 1968 when the now infamous Ba'ath Party came to power. In 1979 everybody's favorite dictator, Saddam Hussein took the reigns.

But I digress. The point I am trying to make is that Iraq is a fractured nation regardless of who is running the show. You have various factions that were just thrown together without any forethought and expected to exist as a nation. Civil war may very well be on the horizon due to this fact and it might be the only way to ever see some sort of stability in that country. The United States should take that route now, before a civil war erupts. We should bring the various factions together and work out some way of dividing Iraq into several smaller nations who could then work on becoming peaceful allies of the United States.

Continuing to force groups of people who hate each other into living together is a lesson in madness.