(August 22, 2016 at 4:02 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Iraq will probably not survive as a viable nation.
Iraq never was a nation. A nation is something where people choose to live together willingly. Not some artificial construct drawn up at a cozy office at London by throwing three Ottoman provices together and calling it a state.
Actually many nations were cobbled together after long, violent, struggles. The exception seems to be Africa where those lines on a map result in constant ethnic tension because they all seem to hate each other. Sooner or later, they will have it out.
