http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/the_break_dance.html what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:42:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/the_break_dance.html#comment-5735 exitr Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:17:55 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/uncategorized/the_break_dance#comment-5735 Terrific post. The analogy between Partition and a proposed 3-state (or 3-region) solution for Iraq is both shocking and revealing. The arbitrary post-WWI borders that more or less created Iraq are coming back to haunt the former Allies. The obvious solution? New arbitrary borders. The Ottomans are looking like the prophetic power here: Iraq was formed out of the imperial regions of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra. Terrific post. The analogy between Partition and a proposed 3-state (or 3-region) solution for Iraq is both shocking and revealing. The arbitrary post-WWI borders that more or less created Iraq are coming back to haunt the former Allies. The obvious solution? New arbitrary borders. The Ottomans are looking like the prophetic power here: Iraq was formed out of the imperial regions of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra.

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