Can Iraq Survive Sectarian Feuding?
The civil war of the United States ended in 1865. Four years of the bloodiest and deadliest warfare our country has ever know. The American Civil War pitted brother against brother and father against son. A war based upon fundamental differences between the Union and the Confederacy. The civil war ended 142 years ago, and yet today, there are still people who, in their mind, continue to fight the civil war because of their fundamental belief in the different values of human life based upon the color of a persons skin. Despite these differences, the United States lives in relative peace, blacks as neighbors to whites as neighbors to browns as neighbors to yellows. Today, Iraq faces a similar situation with the differences represented in the different sects of Islam that represent the majority of the Iraqi population. The Shi’a sect in the East, which is the most populous, the Sunni sect in the West, the Kurds in the North and a spattering of other sects spread throughout the country. Be
