The Iraq Situation


A brief guide to understanding the boxes :

Each player is assigned a box. The size of the box indicates approximately the level of influence. Their choices, in decreasing order of preference is within the box. Their absolute nightmare situation is also inside the box in red font.

By looking at the boxes, one thing will be clear: though a partition is not anybody's first choice, it is the most inevitable consequence. The Modern Iraq, a creation of Sir Sykes and Monsieur Picot 's pencils (and erasers) is up for some re-configuration, if one can put it mildly. This time the major factors determining the contours would not be arbitrary pencil sketches but real bloody lines inflicted by forces on the ground.