Feb 12, 2012
A Guide to Ethnic Cleansing
Title of the Daily Dish's post and what's happening in Baghdad. We've all seen it coming - the neighborhoods are separating themselves. Mixed areas have become homogenous, and largely not through peaceful means. Makes this report of soft partition even more critical.
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[...] This op/ed’s been making the rounds, and our added question mark to the title is intentional. We’ve been a fan of O’Hanlon’s ideas for soft partition in the face of events already taking place, but the vibe around town lately definitely has not been that we are winning in Iraq. The standard rebuttal to reports that Iraqis are uniting to fight al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (a group that gained noteriety only after the US invasion in 2003, we underscore, lest statements about “fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq” be misconstrued as having to do with fighting the group that carried out the attacks on Sept. 11) is that once the Qaeda enemy in Anbar province is defeated, might we not expect the Iraqis to resume attacks against coalition troops in the classic enemy-of-my-enemy formation? [...]