Iraq - Pushing Toward Civil War?
 

Pushing toward civil war? :confused:

Sam Wyer from the Institute for The Study of War takes a look at the evolving protests across Iraq.

And so it goes...

Richard :munchin

Political Update: Mapping the Iraq Protests
ISW, 11 Jan 2013

Over the last three weeks, both anti-government and pro-government demonstrations have spread across Iraq, split geographically along sectarian lines. The graphics {link below} depict where anti-government protests first erupted and how they have steadily spread throughout predominantly Sunni areas north and west of Baghdad. After two weeks of anti-government demonstrations, pro-government counter-protests emerged in the southern predominately Shi’a provinces. The geographic split of the movements is both a factor and an accelerant of sectarian tensions in Iraq.

http://www.understandingwar.org/back...-iraq-protests

This is kind of a mystery...
 

"Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Shi’a political organization the Sadrist Movement, has voiced cautious support for the demonstrations, but has thus far not mobilized his supporters to participate."

I'm surprised he is still alive.

We've discussed this ad nauseum. When we decided to leave Iraq and when we leave A-Stan there will be civil war. It's the middle east, tell me a year, or century when they were not fighting with someone else or themselves?

I couldn't agree more. Even if we left Iraq a utopia and A-stan the same, it will still degrade in to a civil war. The outside factions play a role to spark sectarian violence and once that ball starts rolling, it doesn't stop. This particular one started millennia ago and it keeps slowly rolling along.