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IIRC, the Tyroleans were a part of Austria till WW I, when the Austrians were on the losing side, and the Italians were our allies. They got the region as part of the Vesailles Treaty.
I see no long term peace in Iraq with the factions now existing in their present state, even with a constitution and a democratically elected government. The real issues upon breakup will be the distribution of resources (mainly oil), and the existence of a Kurdish state, which is a problem for some of our allies.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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