(07-11-2017, 10:59 AM)Ryccia Wrote: All praise to the Iraqi people. I do worry about the Sunni north, however. After all, the oppression and/or misrepresentation by the Shi'a majority in the south after Saddam was one of the causes of ISIS's rise in Iraq, if I recall correctly. If Iraq wants to stop sympathies to ISIS in the north, the Shi'a should build bridges with the Sunni.

Iraqi Kurdistan will also hold an independence referendum on November, if I remember well. What will happen then as well?

To be fair about it, the Sunnis are also guilty. They had it so good when Saddam Hussein was in power and did little to nothing when he oppressed the Shiites. Nonetheless, sectarianism needs to end. The Southern Kurds held a referendum in 2005 and it was 99% in favor of independence. At the most, another referendum result in favor of independence is just a double down on policy.