Iraq - Tens Years After

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Originally Posted by icenine

+1.....
Iraq is a very violent place...right now there is a smoldering Sunni insurgency as evidenced by today's coordinated bombings. I think at this point it will be a race between an insurgency and the increase in wealth brought by oil production that will decide Iraq's future. Hopefully a better economy fueled by oil production will win out in the end. I am not optimistic however.

The Shia-dominated south and the Kurdish north are both relatively peaceful. However, central Iraq is problematic because the sizable Sunni minority feels pretty shit-upon by the Shia-dominated Maliki government.