Markedly disturbing impetus for unity...
Article on plan for walling in Iraqi neighborhoods:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Last week's news on the Baghdad walls being built in Sunni neighborhoods (known for insurgent activity) is ironically generating a even more volatile situation. Once opposing Sunni and Shiite activists are now joining in denouncing the pervasive impact the U.S. is having upon them as citizens of Baghdad.
Of course, people want the civil unrest to stop. However, the common ground is now against U.S. forces whose supposed purpose is to quell the unrest.
I am not a person who normally advises for divisiveness -- but is the answer to helping this region an Iraq divided into three separate countries i.e. Sunni, Shiite, Kurd? How will the resources be split if that happens? The complexity truly overwhelms...
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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Another thing to think about is how extremists in Turkey will react to whatever becomes of Iraq. And how will Iran?
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