HashiraMadara - I consider you among the sentient beings here so tell me, how do you deal with people who are either too lazy to read or mentally incapable of understanding a couple of dozens of pages of history etc about a topic which they nevertheless love to speak out of their arses about?
In the adolescent minds of these people the invasion of Iraq was about oil - that Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Oman etc all managed to use their oil reserves to attain developed world standards of living despite having no real economies notwithstanding - and because that state was a utopia, an Islamic "light unto the world."
Allow me to give you folks a dose of reality:
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"Despite paeans to national unity, Iraq has been disintegrating for decades. The Kurds spent much of the past century in armed revolt against successive Arab governments in Baghdad before securing autonomy in 1991. Outside the relatively cosmopolitan capital, large segments of the country’s Shia population were locked in armed confrontation with the government since Saddam Hussein consolidated his power in 1979 until he was toppled by the US in 2003.
Within weeks of the US invasion, a Sunni insurgency flared up against the Americans and then the Shia majority now dominating the country. “The sectarianism has been here for a long time; it’s not new,” says Ziad Ajeel, a political analyst. “The Kurds refused to be ruled by the Arabs. The Shia refused to be ruled by the Sunni. Now the Sunni don’t want to be ruled by the Shia. Iraq’s history confirms that you cannot achieve your rights without the use of weapons. And that is the problem with Iraq.”
Neighbouring Syria, with its ethnic mix of Kurds, Sunni and Shia that mirrors that of Iraq, is also falling apart. There is a sense that Iraq’s demography is incompatible with the zero-sum politics that have long dominated the country and region. All three of Iraq’s main communities view themselves as aggrieved victims of history as they absolve themselves of their own sins.
“Saddam Hussein did the same thing to the Shia that Maliki is now doing to the Sunni,” says a 23-year-old Sunni man in Adhemiya district."
