BLACKFIVE: Thoughts on Iraq

Iraq has essentially three problems to "solve" to become a stable country.  These are the Sunni problem, the Shia problem, and the Kurdish problem.  By "problem" I mean not that the people are a problem, but that each of the main subsets of the population has a particular challenge that has to be resolved before it can integrate into a successful state.  (This is, of course, at a high degree of abstraction -- at the ground level, Shiites and Sunnis may be intermarried, etc.)

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