The Atlantic Online | After Iraq | Jeffrey Goldberg
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200801/goldberg-mideast
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I particularly liked the Kurdish Governor’s comment near the end of the article, when he said that he could never have forseen being the Governor of Kirkuck, and he only knew that they were not going to go back to the way things were before.
Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 2:42 am | PermalinkAs with the Balcans, and with pre-Gorbachov Russia, it seems that only a dictatorship of one kind or another can hold these boundaries together and that even a small amount of personal freedom ( democracy is too big a word for it) will lead to a break-up of the political map as previously drawn.
The problem with this is the people who are uprooted or suffer even worse consequences due to this process.
I have little sympathy with, what at the end of the day are sectarian yearnings for togetherness. In the West we have spent the last 50 years learing to live in a multi racial/faith society. What we have is far from perfect, but we are trying. Is it too much to ask that Middle Easterners do the same?
your last points are where it is at allowing some cultural diversity.
Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 11:37 am | PermalinkMichael