*Joe Biden solution summation in article “and to a prescription he offered to try to manage that reality by granting Sunnis, Shia and Kurds greater autonomy over various parts of the country.”
SO...NO the comment was about Joe Biden solution and it’s not a political solution, it’s a sectarian solution of placing control in various areas for different ISLAM sects....as I stated.
And the comment I addressed did not appear to understand that.
This was because of oil revenue. Most of the oil is in the Shia south and the Kurdish north and the Sunnis don't have much.
If the country were partitioned, the oil revenue would also be partitioned, leading to endless war over the oil money.
The US insisted on and the Iraq Constitution contains the oil revenue sharing language.
But problems arose quickly. In 2007 Hunt Oil Company announced that they would deal direct with the Kurds. Other companies also announced but they were all small companies and the oil still had to be shipped south to the Persian Gulf allowing the Iraq central govt to collect the revenue and distribute that revenue according to the Constitution.
To deal with this problem, the Iraqi Central govt developed a policy that said any oil company that dealt directly with the Kurds could not participate in any other oil project within Iraq.
But then the problem got worse.
In 2012, Exxon announced that they would deal direct with the Kurds. Conoco and Total soon followed with their announcement. Exxon had bid on and been awarded 50% of the huge Quarna field with a Chinese company holding the other half. So Iraq told Exxon that if they were going to deal direct with the Kurds, they would have to divest their holdings in the Quarna field. Exxon began divesting, although they still hold about 10%.
But then the problem got worse.
The pipeline connecting Kurdish Iraq, thru Turkey, to the Mediterranean was completed. This allows the Kurdish oil onto the world market without the shared revenue being deducted. The Kurds could keep all of the revenue.
If this happens, eventually the Shia will also stop sharing the revenue from the oil produced in the south.
The Sunni, deprived of the shared revenue, will use military force to get their share.