ISIS takes half of Syria

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Of course it would have. The Iraqi Army before being disbanded was the only real capable fighting force in Iraqi outside of the kurds. No other groups would have had the expertise, connections, or material to take on the US military like Saddam's ex-soldiers did. Allied with the US, they could easily run and govern the country. Yea, they would have to deal with some stupid elections, but they would also get tons of US aid and weapons, and they would probably be able to avoid any candidate winning that they really disapproved of. This is critical in Iraq because the Shia have a voting majority and in a true democracy would do exactly what they did in Iraq, vote in a sectarian government that would end up driving the country apart.

Even if the country did split, if we didn't disband it we would be looking at a Sunni Iraq basically controlled by the old Iraqi army, a much easier force to deal with politically than ISIS currently. I know you haven't left f**k Ontario so their world politics are completely lost on you, but his is how ethnically divided nations are usually run. The majority generally has the most say in the political process but a minority generally controls the military. Not an ideal situation but it's clearly workable as it's the case for dozens of nations in Asia and Africa. Iraq actually would be ideal for such a strategy because the Shia, Kurds and Sunni's all would stand to gain from such an arrangement as they would be able to have significantly more regional autonomy.

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(Saz plan leads to nasty(er) Iranian backed Shia insurgency in the south)

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