Can a nation exist when there is no real "community of interest...?"
I doubt it.
The three factions of Iraq have so little in common--except of course for their mutual contempt of each other--that I doubt ANY truly viable government will take root...
The Kurds have a once in several centuries opportunity to form their homeland/nation state... So in that regard they are very like the Ukrainians of the Soviet Era...
Arn they ARE NOT going to miss this singlar opportunity.
The Shia and the Sunni have nothing but hate for each other...and their only "common cause" is their mutual contempt for Bush/Israel/Neocons/Zionists, and the despised Western "Crudaders."
HATING BUSH CAN BE A POWERFUL UNIFYING FORCE...BUT YOU CAN'T FOUND A NATION ON IT!
Further, for any government, to be viable, is going to have to come out from behind the blast barriers; and out of their concrete bunkers...to be seen as "legitimate"...SOONER OR LATER.
AS LONG AS IT TAKES THE POWER OF THE ENTIRE US MILITARY TO PROTECT THEM... THE QUESTION REMAINS: IS THIS "NEW GOVERNMENT" REAL? OR MERELY A BUNCH OF QUISLINGS AND WAR OPPORTUNISTS.
LETS JUST SAY...I THINK WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER BUSHIAN "TOP GUN MOMENT" HERE...
