Disregarding the fact that they thoughtlessly almost imply that all Sunni Moslems are terrorists, there is an interesting point in saying that Iraq is an artificial entity.
Citizens of many European countries and of the USA and several other places on the globe seem supposed to identify themselves with their country. Ask a Dane if he is Danish or European, and their is a pretty good chance that he answers "Danish". Europe is something that comes as an afterthought, and sometimes not at all.
Perhaps, and I am really guessing here, a solution for Iraq is to abandon all pretensions of being a country. By forming tighter bonds with countries with a lot of Sunni like Syria, Jordan and Kuwait, with countries with a lot of Shiites like Iran and with a lot of Kurds like Turkey and Iran (again), the Iraqi might find an identity of "Mesopotamians" or "Middle Easterners" and content themselves with Iraq as a purely administrative region within a larger area - a European Union type of unity consisting of the countries around Tigris and Euphrates.
Where is Alexander the Great (Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος) when you need him?
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I was thinking that you never see a solution for Iraq where the population groups are completely separated (for now at least) in territories based on where they live. What if all US troops could go home quite immidiately with such an almost simple solution? Maybe solution thinking for Iraq is way too traditional today.
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