Does an Independent Kurdistan make Sense?

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Does an Independent Kurdistan make Sense?
By contributors | Jun. 26, 2014
By Mohammed Shareef and Janroj Yilmaz Keles

By invading Iraq and mismanaging the aftermath, the United States precipitated Iraq’s collapse as a unified state, but it did not cause it.

Erbil aims at becoming the Arab Capital of Tourism The castle in the city of Erbil. Demotix/Yildiz Celik. All rights reserved.With the radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) taking over huge swathes of Iraq’s northern and western territory from the Shi’a dominated government of Nouri al-Maliki, the territorial integrity of Iraq is in question. These recent developments in Iraq are a clear sign of a failed state on the brink of total collapse and a reality that many in the west are still denying.

Partition works as a political solution for Kurdistan, the Shiite south, and the Sunni Arab centre because it formalises what has already taken place. Partition is the major reason Kurdistan is stable.Throughout Iraq’s tumultuous history the sectarian and ethnic mentality in Baghdad has far superseded a common Iraqi national identity.

Therefore the US and other western nations’ insistence on maintaining the status quo is no more than a fantasy. The reality for Kurds and Shia/Sunni Arabs could be better described as a ‘forced marriage’. International forces’ objection to the division of Iraq into three states (Shia Arab, Sunni Arab and Kurdish states), is a futile attempt at squaring a circle.