Re: The Balkanization of Iraq

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

If the US power elite were smart and above self-interest -- which, of
course, they're not -- they would impose an "Alaskan solution": each
Iraqi adult would receive a yearly share of the oil revenues. That
would deal will all these intra-Iraqi fights over oil.

On 8/27/05, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you look at the map below, it will be obvious that most of Iraq's oil is
> in the Kurdish controlled north and the Shiite controlled south:
> 
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_oilfields_1992.jpg
> 
> In the May New York Review of Books, Peter W. Galbraith argues for what
> amounts to the breakup of Iraq:

-- 
Jim Devine
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