NYT - Make Walls, Not War

Peter Gabraith's OP in today's New York Times:

<IN a surge of realism, the Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has broken up and cannot be put back together. The measure, co-sponsored by Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, supports a plan for Iraq to become a loose confederation of three regions — a Kurdish area in the north, a Shiite region in the south and a Sunni enclave in the center — with the national government in Baghdad having few powers other than to manage the equitable distribution of oil revenues.

While the nonbinding measure provoked strong reactions in Iraq and from the Bush administration, it actually called for exactly what Iraq’s Constitution already provides — and what is irrevocably becoming the reality on the ground.>

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<Let’s face it: partition is a better outcome than a Sunni-Shiite civil war. There is, in any event, little alternative to partition. Iraq cannot be reconstructed as a unitary state, and the sooner we face up to this reality, the better.>

Peter W. Galbraith, a former United States ambassador to Croatia


More: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/opinion/23galbraith.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

helpful and I'm for it already! Just more info to help you reach your decision.

Great article, tsegat - thank you! :7

though Galbraith did refer to it as a partition, which it isn't.

He is for a partition, where Biden/Gelb are hoping for a loose federation.

Similar - but not exact.