The Gaul of Iraq.(COMMENTARY)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: July 11, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Arnold Beichman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

As all schoolboys know from Julius Caesar's Commentaries, "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres," all Gaul (today's France) is divided into three parts.

What those three parts were no longer matters very much. But it does matter that Iraq also is divided into three parts - Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. It is a country based on a fiction, as are many post-colonial countries like Nigeria. Iraq will not survive as a united country, no matter how much the U.S. or the United Nations try to endow it with territorial legitimacy.

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