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Wikistrat post @ CNN-GPS: Predicting Iraq's future
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:33PM Editor’s Note: The following piece, exclusive to GPS, comes from Wikistrat, the world's first massively multiplayer online consultancy. It leverages a global network of subject-matter experts via a crowd-sourcing methodology to provide unique insights.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq began 9 years ago this week, triggering a conflict that cost the U.S. approximately 4,500 lives and a trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money. In honor of that anniversary, Wikistrat’s an alytic “crowd” debated: a) what America ultimately accomplished in Iraq, and b) where Iraq is likely headed in the years ahead. These are our six primary judgments.
Read the entire post at CNN's GPS blog.
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Reader Comments (2)
A couple of thoughts:
1. What obstacles exist to those militias evolving into a British-style regimental system? Or, to the extent that they are de-facto police forces, into an American-style system of local, provincial and regional police departments?
2. A, B and C are closely related. Political union between Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis and their Syrian brethren also gives them greater control over the Syrian portions of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers--and greater clout in their water disputes with Turkey. Also, a crack-up of Iran could lead to attempts by the Kurds and (Shia) Arabs to hook up with their co-ethnics in the west of that country.
Without sounding like shameless self promotion, this latest Wikistrat contribution to GPS; drew from a virtual Medici intersection of minds, to allow you to craft a concise, but troubling vision of where Iraq is headed. To watch and participate in this as it came together is an experience to be sought and savored. Quite frankly, this is perhaps the best GSP effort thus far.