Originally posted by oldsoul
And what, pray tell, would you replace the vast power vacuum with?
Syria and Iraq with their artificial borders and minority Alawite\Hachemite\Sunni government were a creation of Anglo-French imperialism in the Middle East.
The "new" Iraq is the same artificial country with an equally unwanted Shiite government.
Israel is the result of the marriage between british imperialism and Zionism a nineteenth century european colonization movement.
The West can keep these 3 political anomalies alive for decades to come, as Flacaltenn seems to want, but 100 years from now the native people of Syria and Iraq will still be fighting the foreign imposition of borders that totally disregarded their wishes and the native people of Palestine will still be fighting for their right to live in Haifa, Askhelon and Jaffa.
What Flac and apparently you fail to realize is that the desire to undo 100 years of european colonialism will outlive Isis, the PA, the PLO and Hamas.
So I'd suggest replacing the "vast power vaccuum" with what the peoples of Syria and Iraq clearly wish:
Borders based on ethnicity and religion not on anglo-french under the table agreements.
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