Mess'o potamia

In the battle of Iraq, chaos and disorder have prevailed. Rather than attempt to reconciliate the Sunni, the Shii'a and the Kurd factions, the United States should be looking at fragmenting the country to form 3 independent nation-states where each ethnic-religious faction is a majority. Iraq's borders as we know them today were an invention of the British colonial ambitions, which divided Mesopotamia in a way that would benefit their economic and political interests without taking into account the desire for each ethnic group to be able to decide its own future. By doing so, the British incorporated Mosul, with a Kurd majority, into a region dominated by Sunnis but where the Shii'a was the majority. Today for the first time in over a century, Mesopotamia has the chance to give its people the autonomy and the right to self determination that they have been seeking. The Shi'ia would control what is now southern Iraq and the Shi'ia strongholds, the Kurds would control the north including Kirkuk, and the Sunnis would control Diyala, Salahudin and Anbar. Baghdad will be controlled by U.N peace keepers and be divided between the Sunni and the Shi'ia for a future shared capital.