There is a limit to the amount of unfair treatment and oppressive rule an individual can take. Living in a hostile environment will only promote an uprising for change. That change will include political activism and the search for independence. This is the case for the ethnic groups in Iraq. During Saddam Hussein’s government there were revolts intended to change the boundaries of Iraq set earlier by colonial powers. According to the newspaper “USA Today” When the United States and the coalition of other countries were able to dismantle Hussein’s government the idea of separation began to take form by the local ethnic groups” ( Michaels 2014). During the period of Iraq’s existence, tensions between all of these ethnic groups have emerged due …show more content…
There main objective is to gain as much power to be able to maintain themselves as an independent nation and stop all the oppression they each face from one another. To some extent there intergroup relation has been established by each ethnic group holds power to a specific part of the country that is not available to the other. According to Ryan Crocker who was the U.S ambassador to Iraq from 2007-2009 he states that the divisions between "Shiastan," "Jihadistan" and Kurdistan are obvious. He says that “Shiite Muslims, run the national government in Baghdad; the insurgent Sunni Muslim jihadists make up the Islamic State; and the ethnic Kurds, who have long presided over an oil-rich, semiautonomous enclave in the north” (Michaels 2014). By many this is considered chaos because it has only driven the fight for the ethnic groups to separate and not work together in order to keep Iraq together. If Iraq separates it can lead to “radical Islamists to establish a stronghold from which they can export terrorism to other parts of the region and world” (Michaels 2014). This could be detrimental to the innocent people of Iraq because unfortunately there could be a mass genocide of innocent people in Iraq by radical Islamic …show more content…
Some argue that because there is absolutely no trust between the ethnic groups nor with government and military Iraq should dismantle to prevent future corruption and violence. For example according to the article “Why it’s time for Iraq to split into three Countries” from The World Post it states that “it is unlikely that Iraqis will ever trust the army to protect them or defend the country. In fact, most people in Iraq fear the police or soldiers more than they may fear insurgents. Nowhere did I hear a good word about the country’s politicians. There was deep mistrust for the authority” (Nuri 2014). Although many believe Iraq’s current state cannot be bettered there are still those who believe Iraq can be fixed. For example the United States believes “Iraq must stay united if it is to take back the country from the radical Islamists” (Michaels 2014). Because the U.S want to dismantle and prevent Islamic terrorist groups from gaining power and continuing to carry on their radical ideas they are urging Iraq to “create a broad government that would lessen tensions among the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites thus preventing terrorist groups from exporting terrorism to other parts of the region and world” (Michaels