Make Walls, Not War

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Author(s) Peter Galbraith
Source The New York Times
Date October 23, 2007
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/opinion/23galbraith.html
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Quotes-start.png "Iraq’s Kurdish leaders are willing to remain part of Iraq for the time being because Kurdistan already has all attributes of a state except international recognition. But over the long term, the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union are better analogies to Iraq than Bosnia. Democracy destroyed those states because, as in Iraq, there was never a shared national identity, and a substantial part of the population did not want to be part of the country." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Iraq should be split up on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.