The Partitioning of Iraq

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Author(s) Charles Krauthammer
Source The Washington Post
Date September 7, 2007
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602270.html
Quote
Quotes-start.png "What's happening today is not geographical line-drawing, colonial-style. We do not have a Mr. Sykes and a Mr. Picot sitting down to a map of Mesopotamia in a World War I carving exercise. The lines today are being drawn organically by self-identified communities and tribes. Which makes the new arrangement more likely to last." Quotes-end.png


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This item takes a mixed stance on the position Iraq should be split up on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.