Will Iraq split? Michael J. Totten thinks so. My take? Maybe. I think the Kurds are far more predisposed to federalism than their neighbors and with good reason. However, I think the Arabs (both Sunni and Shia) will have to make some significant concessions wrt to oil revenue and Kirkuk. Which would be better? A fractuous unstable Iraq or a stable Kurdistan and Iraq? Granted those are not the only choices but its clear the Kurds can stand on their own without any help. This would makes the Turks insane which, given their perfidity in the runup to the 2003 invasion, bothers me not the least.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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