A constitution and a pre-nuptial agreement
Interesting point by Mark Steyn, enemy of middle eastern stability:
[T]here’s a political stalemate in Baghdad at the moment, but that’s not a catastrophe: if you read the very federal Iraqi constitution carefully, the ingenious thing about it is that it’s not just a constitution but also a pre-nup. If the Sunni hold-outs are determined to wreck the deal, 85% of the Iraqi population will go their respective ways creating a northern Kurdistan that would be free and pro-western and a southern Shiastan that would still be the most democratic state in the Arab world. That outcome would also be in America’s long-term interest. Indeed, almost any outcome would.
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:47 pm
I agree with Mark Steyn that some potential outcomes of this war would not be so bad.
An independent Kurdistan would be good. The biggest problem would be with the
Turks and loss of their Kurdish population.