A desire to see some of the article's points discussed, which sadly, too few seem to care about, instead impugning one's motives and kindergartenish name calling, like you did.
Guess you don't get the point about discussion forums.
bringing up Osama?
Asking how many more troops have to die as if that justifies an action?
Gee that isn't straight out of the Sheehan book of war protesting or anything.
And the article has NO merit. It's tactically retarded and would also be a strategic DISASTER for the region.
But you don't care. You want to hur hur hur debate right?
Give me a break.
You arm chair generals are all the same.
Actually, prior to the war I had suggested the same thing myself, that Iraq should be three countries.
Sometimes I still think so.
But you have put your finger on the problem; the Sunni center has no oil. So although they hate a constitution that forces them to coexist, outnumbered, in a democratic state with non-sunnis and non-arabs, I suspect that that is preferable to being cut off from the primary source of wealth and employment in the whole region.
They are just going to have to get used to being polite to their neighbors.
The last thing we want is another West Bank in the middle of Iraq, and cut off from any meaningful economy, that is what we will have. Inevitably, the Kurds and Shias would have to cross the border and deal with them by force. So I've come to the conclusion that the best of all worlds is three autonomous states with a single citizenship, and a single currency. Since the sunni arabs will have to fend for themselves in any event, best they do so from within a federated Iraq. They aren't powerless, in any event; they will learn to do what minorities always do, which is play kingmaker with one of the other two parties in the country.
As for us, as you point out, in a three-state-solution, we would still have to remain behind, to protect the Kurds against the Turks, the Shias against Iran, and the sunnis against their fellow Iraqis. So nothing, in that sense, would change. And whether united or divided, we dare not leave if leaving clears the way for the head-choppers to shoot their way back into power. So we've got some work ahead of us.