There Is No Iraq

Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant
neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain
it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent
and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall and all the
king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Iraq back together
again.

There is no Iraq. It does not exist in the minds and
souls of the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. There will be three different
countries in the place we call Iraq, whether we like it or not.

from The
Huffington Post by Cenk Uygur

The Dowbrigade has long held that the basic problem
in the modern Middle East is the existence of artificial, externally
imposed nation states, created by a conspiratorial cabal of European
power mongers after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. The family, tribal
and religious ties that bind the inhabitants of fertile cresent are orders
of
magnitude
stronger than any imagined aligence to the Western fantasy of a coherent
state happily funneling us their oil deposits while going about their
swarthy third-world business in an orderly way.