“We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now.
This is exactly the thing Bush promised the Arabs would not happen. Turkey feared Kurdistan. Saudi’s feared a new Shiastan. Everybody else feared a new Sunistan. Now, everybody’s fears have appeared and then some.
On the good side, they’ll be fighting each other over the oil for a long time to come. On the bad side, somebody will be selling the oil that they get and will at some point be very rich and very radicalized.
Convert Sunnistan into the state of ExxonMobilstan. Pump it dry then return it to the hoards.
Had it been split in the beginning, we could have saved many lives and trillions. Which is why many wanted it that way from the start.
Keeping a country together by force always ends this way. Many here in America should have a good look at their future thanks to the even split we have.
Sucks. But it is what it is.
We should call it Obamistan.
“Then we’ve got SUNNISTAN...we’ve go to treat that as if it were a safe haven for terrorists”
Just another foreign policy accomplishment of Barack Obama. ben laden never offered up that kind of threat. “Sunnistan” just came into possession of half a billion dollars to finance their terrorism.
Barack Hussein Obama will fly in on a magic carpet towing a “Mission Accomplished” banner
“Sunnistan” should be divided into Eastern and Western Glassistan.
All exactly according to obama’s masters plan.
Ya think? I felt it was gone a long time ago. But it just took time to become real news.
“The country of Iraq is, for all intents and purposes, dead and has been replaced by three successor states, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden told Newsmax TV Wednesday. “
Neither he nor the rest of the intel community saw this coming, but they continue to be pretty good at stating the obvious after it’s already happened.
Adios Iraq and hello to Kurdistan, Shiastan and Sunnistan.
“The state of Iraq as we know it is gone, and it’s not going to be reconstituted,” he told “The Steve Malzberg Show.”
“We’ve got three successor states there now,” Hayden, a retired four star Air Force general added. “As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it’s not going to stay together.
“We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now.
We should give help to the Maliki government, sufficient to settle the current conflict so it just doesn’t turn into a humanitarian disaster,” Hayden said.
“For example, there’s fighting around Beiji right now, the oil refinery north of Baghdad. Baghdad needs that for that part of the country to survive, and so we’ve got to settle the lines of this conflict in a way that Nouri al-Maliki’s surviving state, which I’ll call Shiastan, has Beiji within it.
“Then we’ve got Sunnistan, and that’s the state under the control of ISIS right now, and frankly, we’ve got to treat that as if it were a safe haven for terrorists and begin to think about it the way we had thought about Waziristan for the last decade-plus. That’s a tough message, and I’m afraid that’s where we are.
Hayden said “Sunnistan” consists of western Iraq and eastern Syria. “There is no border now,” he said.
Our Sunni Potus must be very happy.
Three state solution is a joke, just as Joe Biden who suggested that nonsense.