U.S. Embassy rips Senate plan on Iraq

"The U.S. Embassy...joined a broad swath of Iraqi politicians — both Shiite and Sunni — in criticizing a nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution seen here as a recipe for splitting the country along sectarian and ethnic lines."  CONTINUED 

Our own Senate said that?  Are they crazy? 

Let me get this straight... we'll give Iraq a weak central government, and then split Iraq into three parts like some sort of Islamic Neapolitan ice cream.  That means The Kurds will get the rich Kirkuk oil fields, while the Shi'ites gets port access (I imagine the Sunnis, then, while get the highly fertile Anbar Province).

Which means the already weak Iraqi state will be divided economically amongst factions who, last I checked, don't really get along too well.  What a [PIGEONED] brilliant idea!

Didn't we have our own Constitutional Convention specifically to avoid having a crippled central government?

IN OTHER NEWS:

UN envoy meets Myanmar democracy leader:  A U.N. envoy was unable to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.  CONTINUED

Good luck, Mr. UN:  Myanmar--excuse me, Burma--didn't give a [PIGEONED] in 1988, and I don't think they give a [PIGEONED] now.  After all, it takes that special sort of Junta to fire on clergy.

Comments

[MOGS]

Ummm, Pidge. Iraq has basically always been three (or more) parts. There is no such thing as "Iraq" - not unless them people up and decide they actually WANT there to be some sort of unitary (or federalized) nation-state named Iraq

And as far as Al Anbar goes...they might be sitting on top of a gold mine, if the latest exploration data proves true...

As far as Burma goes...where's our strategic interest? Counter-narc? Good start, but where's the UN? Where's ASEAN? Where's SEATO for god's sake...

[The Mad Pigeon]

Indeed, Iraq is three parts--but I'm absolutely convinced a united Iraq will equal more than the sum.

If we're not going to help Iraq become Iraq, then what's the point of staying? Indeed, if Iraq doesn't want it, why bother?

(Or, we could declare Kurdistan a soverign nation and set up a pay-per view event for the Turkish invasion).

[C-Chan]

In answer to MOGS: According to the Washington Times, nine ASEAN leaders spoke out against Burma on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. I'm not sure what other tools they really have at their disposal, but apparently that's something different for them.