[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[Jeff Davis]

--- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:

> Oil revenue: The physical partition also partitions
> the oil wells. The 
> Kurds lose, the Shiites lose, the Sunnis win,
> mostly. 

I think you've got it backwards.  Check the Iraq map
of ethnic distribution: 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/etc/map.html

and compare it to a map of Iraqi oil:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/IraqOilMap.pdf

The Kurdish and Shia territories have the bulk of the
oil.  Nevertheless there seems to be some oil in the
Sunni region as well.  Not to mention the undetermined
potential for oil in the exploration blocks, which are
all Sunni.

Best, Jeff Davis

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its
ideas or values or religion but rather by its
superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners
often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." 
                - Samuel P. Huntington


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