A worse solution for Iraq

Academic geniuses have come up with a worse solution to Iraq, to show that it is possible. A tripartite monstronsity. Why not propose a more obvious solution? A minority ruled Iraq that is ruled by the Kurds, just as the Allawites rule Syria. The Kurds are loyal to the US and opposed to Islamist extremism.

 

Alternatively, if Turkey doesn't like this plan, and it won't, give Turkey the responsibility for making order in Iraq.

 

No plan at all can work unless the US or someone confronts the Iranian and Syrian influence in Iraq. A federation will surely splinter into an Iranian controlled south, a Syrian controlled middle, and a Kurdish state - de facto if not de jure.

 

Ami Isseroff

 

Academics Recommend Shift in Iraq Policy
Johns Hopkins, Brookings Academics Propose a Partition of Iraq Into 3 Main Regions

By BARRY SCHWEID
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
Two scholars hoping to draw the attention of Bush administration policymakers are proposing a partition plan for Iraq that would divide the country into three main regions.
Edward P. Joseph of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, acknowledged that their plan faces an uphill struggle. "I think the odds against this are not as good as 50-50," O'Hanlon said at a news conference Thursday.

Withdrawing U.S. troops, O'Hanlon said, remains "a very bad option" that most likely would lead to all-out civil war.

The three main spheres proposed in their plan would be Shiite, Sunni and Kurdistan. The Kurds already control Kurdistan.

Joseph and O'Hanlon are circulating their suggestions within the Bush administration, with their timing geared to an expected top-level administration policy review in September.

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