Blue State/Red State/Kurd State

So everyone's now wailing that Iraq is in a state of awful civil war.

If so, it ought to tell us something.

That they simply don't wanna live together. So let them live apart.

There's nothing sacred about Iraqi nationhood. The country only exists because Winston Churchill thought it was a good idea. There is clearly little sense of nationhood today. So let 'em go. Split the country up into three pieces and let them go their separate ways.

The current constitution almost does that, creating a federal system which makes the Canadians seem tight-reared. So just go all the way.

Let the Kurds join the 21st century, let the Sunnis relive the glorious 1970's under Saddam and let the Shiites march back to those heady days right after the Prophet went on to glory.

Iraq is currently a shotgun marriage. The current fighting and screaming and yelling and killing and all could be gotten rid of if we simply let the divorce take place. Sure, the Shiites get oil and the Sunnis get sand right off the top, but this is the kind of stuff good divorce lawyers know how to handle. If there's anything we Americans know to do well, it's divorce. We can do this.

Otherwise, it's just more of the same, and this story is getting old. The bombs go off, the soldiers shoot at insurgents, the Democrats whine and do nothing and the Reps fret and talk about Mexicans sneaking over the border. We're doing nothing but enabling the Iraqis in their doomed marriage, and like any dysfunctional relationship it's bringing everybody down.

So let's bring in some of Hollywood's best marriage terminators and put an end to the pain.

Who knows, maybe they'll find new partners. The Kurds might get into the European Union before the Turks do. The Shiites might find love with the theocracy next door. And the Sunnis, well, the Sunnis will probably never leave home.

But at least they'll be happy. Happier. Well, at least "be". And then we can finally go home.