http://cominganarchy.com/2007/10/14/uncommon-sense-ii/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:37:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/10/14/uncommon-sense-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-380363 Adrian Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:39:00 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/10/14/uncommon-sense-ii/#comment-380363 Regarding your comparison of southern Shia Iraq with Kurdistan, I wouldn't be too surprised if something similar to what happened in the Kurdish north in the 1990s - civil war between rival political parties, eventually stabilizing in an equilibrium, although I'd expect that equilibrium to be longer in coming than it was for the Kurds, as oil smuggling will be able to fund violence indefinitely. Regarding your comparison of southern Shia Iraq with Kurdistan, I wouldn’t be too surprised if something similar to what happened in the Kurdish north in the 1990s – civil war between rival political parties, eventually stabilizing in an equilibrium, although I’d expect that equilibrium to be longer in coming than it was for the Kurds, as oil smuggling will be able to fund violence indefinitely.

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