Biden's Brilliance

by Noah Pollak August 24th, 2008 - Commentary Magazine

. . . Biden's 2006 proposal for dividing Iraq into three cantons and withdrawing American forces:

"The idea, as in Bosnia, is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group — Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab — room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests. We could drive this in place with irresistible sweeteners for the Sunnis to join in, a plan designed by the military for withdrawing and redeploying American forces, and a regional nonaggression pact."

The title to this article is the ultimate in sarcasm. If Iraq was divided into three autonomous regions, it would result in a Shia region that would be quickly engulfed by Iran and a Kurdish region that would be invaded by Turkey. The small Sunni region left would have no oil. All of the oil would be in the Kurdish and Shia regions.

Turkey has made it clear that they will only tolerate Iraq's current borders if the Kurdish region of Iraq does not get to retain all of the oil profits and use them to fund the civil war with its own Kurdish region.

As this article indicates, the idea by Biden is borderline insane. It is typical of the Biden propensity for gaffes of monumental proportions. Having this man one heart beat away from the Presidency should not give anyone comfort based on the illusion that he has learned anything in his 36 years in the Senate. The MSM keeps insisting Biden is an expert on foreign affairs. The Biden idea above proves that is nonsense.