[lbo-talk] Re: Blowing Up an Assumption

[Michael Pugliese]

On 6/9/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
The origins of modern Iraq were similarly arbitrary -- Iraq was made
of three vilayets (administrative districts) of the Ottoman Empire --
Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra -- that British imperialists carved out for
as a mandate for the British Empire:

   So, Iraq should split into three states? Why that is the "divide
and conquer" plan of Leslie Gelb!
http://slate.msn.com/id/2099574/

   
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Michael Pugliese