The New Berlin?

Wow, things have really taken a turn for the worse in Iraq. It looks like the country (as I always thought it would) will end up being split among the three ethnicities forced into the Iraqi experiment almost nine decades ago, when the Middle Eastern map was redrawn at the end of World War I:

"Iraq as a political project is finished," a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: "The parties have moved to plan B." He said that the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties were now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad, where there is a mixed population. "There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into [Shia] east and [Sunni] west," he said.

Nice work, George.