For the Iraq War’s Birthday, Slice the Cake
by Ivan Eland
3/18/2008
As the fifth anniversary of the United States’ second longest (next to Vietnam) and second costliest (next to World War II) war passes, the good news is that the counterinsurgency strategy of Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno seems to be working. The bad [...]
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The surge is working! Now what’s next?
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Scholars on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
UAE’s governing system ideal for Iraq
Posted in Iraq, News, Scholars on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Marten Youssef, Staff Reporter
Published: November 07, 2007, 00:21
The UAE governing system should serve as an example to a partitioned Iraq, which is possibly the only solution that will solve the crisis, US Fund for Peace President says.
“The partition would be an association that permits Iraq to function as a common market with shared economic [...]
Resolving the Kurdish Dilemma
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Kurdistan, Scholars, Wall Street Journal on November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and MICHAEL E. O’HANLON
November 2, 2007; Page A12
As President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepare for next week’s crucial meetings with Turkey’s leaders about the attacks by Kurdish PKK rebels, they should look beyond crisis management to deal with the wider Turkish-Kurdish agenda. If they do, it is possible [...]
The case for soft partition
Posted in 2008 Elections, Articles, Bloggers, Iraq, Scholars on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Despite the military success of the surge in Iraq, the lack of political reconciliation continues to dampen any hopes for real and sustainable progress. As such, the U.S. should change strategies and move away from a centralized Iraqi government.
By Edward P. Joseph and Michael O’Hanlon
October 3, 2007
The basic situation in Iraq remains as Gen. [...]
Iraq is already partitioned: Here’s how to make it work
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Scholars on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Ivan Eland
October 2, 2007
In an otherwise divisive, partisan debate on the Iraq war, the 75-23 bipartisan Senate vote to divide Iraq into autonomous regions was astounding. People who disagree on everything else about Iraq, such as conservative Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer of California, voted in favor [...]
Do we need ‘national reconciliation’ in Iraq?
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Scholars on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
September 24, 2007
By Nir Eisikovits – The Boston Globe
Perhaps, instead of talking about political reconciliation, we need to rehabilitate the notion of a truce and add it to our political and intellectual repertoire.
‘Reconciliation,” like “terrorism,” is becoming one of those words that is easy to use but hard to explain.
The U.S. troop surge in Iraq, [...]
It’s Time for Iraq the Nation to Go
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Scholars, Washington Post on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Richard Cohen
September 25, 2007
The creation of modern India and Pakistan entailed the uprooting of more than 12 million people. Bangladesh was itself ripped from Pakistan.
The creation of Republika Srpska, an entity you probably never heard of, was a consequence of the fragmentation of Yugoslavia, which never existed before the 20th century and [...]
Why ‘Partition’ (of Iraq) Is a Dirty Word?
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Scholars on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Ivan Eland
September 20, 2007
A small number of politicians and analysts, including me, have been advocating for some time what has generally been loosely labeled the “partition” option for Iraq. Although at least one anonymous administration official has said that the Bush administration probably would end up there, and although administration policy is tending toward [...]
The Hunt Oil Dispute and the Future of Iraqi Federalism
Posted in Articles, Iraq, Iraqi Scholars, Kurdistan, Scholars on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
September 13, 2007
JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a dispute over the legality of an oil exploration contract recently made between Hunt Oil Co. and the Kurdistan Regional Government calls into question the growing push for a form of loose federalism for Iraq…
On September 8, [...]
A divorce settlement: the road to soft partition!
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq, Kurdistan, Scholars on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Three Nation Solution: The Only Logical, Natural and Inevitable Outcome
By Peter Stitt – Kurdishaspect.com
After most conflicts borders tend to be redrawn by the victors and it can easily be argued that victors are probably the least well qualified parties to make such monumental decisions. Winston Churchill once observed of the Versailles Treaty that ended [...]
