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Originally Posted by mbrown
Iraq wasn't a country until the collapse of the Caliphate and the Ottoman empire. Perhaps you are referring to tribal clans warring? Where in the world hasn't that happened would be the better question.
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What's your point? Are you trying to make one, or just tossing something out there to deflect from the fact that you don't have an argument any more?
Why is it that so many westerners refuse to think outside of their well defined and ordered box? The boundries that WE place on those people don't necessarily affect them. The sectarian divisions that exist within Islam are much more powerful than any border the British created in the region 70 years ago. These religious factions transend borders, as pointed out in several posts here. For hundreds of years these sects have warred against each other, and continue to do so today. Until these religious differences can be settled the region will continue to be unstable and extremely difficult to apply our very skewed view of their world. The geo-political constraints we believe in are not necessarily going to stop the people in these religious sects from killing each other. Until the westerners in charge can accept this, and allow the people of the region to administer themselves (you know, through a true democracy) they are setting themselves and the region up for failure (or civil war, which ever comes first).