[sam_paine]

The US needs to learn to carve up countries. Iraq’s Kurds should be given a separate country, as should the Iraqi Christians. In Afghanistan the north-east should be carved and given to Tajikistan, the nother-west to Uzbekistan and the Hazaras should be given their own protectorate. The Pashtuns need to be reunited with the Pathans in the N-W Frontier province of Pakistan. At the same time, detach BAluchistan from Pakistan and make it a separate country

That's called Balkanization for a reason. And it doesn't turn out well.

[Cronos]

That's called Balkanisation when different ethnicities who have been living side by side IN THE SAME AREA for centuries are forced to separate into separate nations -- as when the rise of nationalism caused problems in Poland (mix of Poles, Jews, Germans, Ruthenians and Lithuania), Romania (Romanians in the mountains and countryside and Hungarians and Germans in the cities), etc.

That is the outcome of nationalism

In contrast, Iraq and Pakistan have artificially created borders

in the case of Iraq, the British at the end of WWI got 3 distinct Ottoman provinces and combined the northern oil-rich province that was occupied by Kurdish people(a distinct Indo-European, Irani people) and the southernmost province populated by Marsh Arabs (Semitic people, mostly Shia) and they had to include the middle Sunni Arab province to join the two

The Kurds are ethnically distinct and have a homeland that is stretched across Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

in the case of Pakistan, the line dividing the Pathans into Afghanistan and the NWFP was artificially created as an outcome of the Anglo-Afghan wars.

The people on both sides are nearly completely Pathani

This is not Balkanisation, but rather reuniting populations that were artificially divided