Those whom fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Another dog and pony show has hit Washington D.C. & the noise class (formerly the press) are busy with their sturm und drang. I am refering to the Congressional appearance of General Petreaus. What is going mostly missing here is an acknowledgement that the error of the post-WW1 breakup and reconfiguration of the Ottoman Empire must finally be allowed to be undone. Said re-ordering, the largest since the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars, has directly led to two of the more sorry episodes of recent history: the breakup of the former Yugoslavia & Iraq. A bit of history review is called for at this point (especially if the reader is the typical clueless Fox viewer whom has no idea of what has happened in the last five minutes...let alone the last five hundred years). Iraq and Yugoslavia are former Ottoman dominions. The Ottoman Empire consisted of South Eastern Europe, the Near East, & a good part of the Middle East for roughly six hundred years (that's longer than the Roman Empire). The Ottoman Turks (who's descendants are the majority of modern day Turkey), though a minority in their own realm, ruled with an iron fist over a vast state encompassing many peoples: Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, & Albanians are amongst those who filled the ranks of whom the Turks called "the Herd." One of their strategies to retain control the Ottomans used was divide and conquor. This created intense rivalries and hatred between the component peoples of the Ottoman Empire that continue to this day. Thus when the inevitable hit the Ottoman Empire and the structure came down after WW1, the Allies were left to parcel out former Ottoman territories. Among the "solutions" that were engineered was the creation of two states that were multi-ethnic and carved out by outsiders, not the people's of the affected countries, Iraq and Yugoslavia. In fact, during Ottoman times, the territory that made up those two countries respecitively were merely neighboring provinces. They were subsequently thrown together and told, "You're a country now." It didn't matter to those decison makers that the peoples thrown together despised each other. It is no surprise that eventually Yugoslavia would implode...and Iraq is next. As long as Bush & Co. continue with their stupid fantasy of keeping the artifice of Iraq as a central unified state, the misery will go on ad infinitum. The inevitable result is the eventual break up of Iraq...and it looks like it will be the Middle East's version of the Yugoslavia implosion. Let us name the first concentration camp set up in Iraq after the igniter of this misery, Camp Bush. Other of his accomplices should not fret, there will be plenty others where their guilty monikers can be attached to these places.