Sunday Morning Newspaper Laugh

[Bill Sloman]

Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<403DF6AD.8070801@nospam.com>...

Bill Sloman wrote:

You've now had a chance to realise that it was a lot easier to invade
Iraq than it is to set up a government that is acceptable to the
population and still sufficiently pliable to be relied on to keep on
filling Haliburton's pockets.


The damned sewer is ungovernable and the present course is idiotic.

Nice to see you agreeing with me for once. Irak is - of course -
governable, because Saddam managed it for some decades. He didn't
provide a popular or a just government, but his government was
certainly effective.

We should break it up into Kurdistan, Sunnistan, and Shiitestan - it
is that
simple - there is no such place as Iraq - a completely artificial creation
of the goddammed corrupt, arrogant, apathetic, and incompetent English.

Were the English all that incompetent? They did provide effective
government, and the monarchy they left behind lasted for a few years.

I'm sure that they thought about breaking up the country along ethnic
boundaries, but this would have left the Kurds in control of the
headwaters of the rivers, but as a very small and geographically
isolated group - the Turks would probably have annexed them if the
Sunni's or the Shiites hadn't got in first.

Also the Sunnis do not seem very willing to cooperate so now is the time
to call on the Kurds natural inclination for genocide of opposing
tribes - the Turks used them effectively to take care of their Armenian
problem - now we can use them to take care of our Sunni problem.

So you are now recommending Saddam-style genoicide as the solution to
the problems you took on - nice one Fred. Who do you want to
"liberate" next? Ex-Yugoslavia or Uganda?

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen