Geo-politics

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From the Suni Triangle thread I see that some are promoting using Tribe against tribe. Have you noticed how many separate nations have emerged from old nations such as Czechoslovakia? This is because after the World Wars national boundaries were determined by geography rather than ethnicity. As an example, there is a region in northern Italy called Tyrolia. Tyrolia is ethnically German. They speak German and the road signs are in German. When I was in the 10th there was a little heard of insurgency taking place in Tyrolia. The Tyrolians wanted to become part of Germany or Austria. They weren't Italian and didn't even speak Italian. I believe the same is true of the Alsace-Lorrain region which was ceded to France after the war.

The same is true in the Middle East. Iraq could very well be divided into several independent nations based upon ethnicity and religion rather than continue to lump them together. This could ease some of the tension in the area. Instead of the Simi Triangle we could have Sunistan. An independent and WORKING nation of Khurdistan could ease some problems. It won't stop inter-tribal rivalry alltogether but may work better than the ethnic/religious mess they have now.