Revising the Iraq break up plan

Prime minister Nouri al Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government was approved and is allied with Iran.   The Shiite arc from Iran, Iraq and Syria has one purpose, block Saudi incursion.

Can Iraq Survive?

If Baghdad now loses control of the Sunni heartland, U.S. and other Western governments may need to accept that “Iraq” is increasingly a geopolitical fiction. At a minimum, Washington ought to ponder that scenario and not be blindsided. As a hedging strategy, U.S. officials at least should evaluate how to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the KRG. It is probably not too early even to establish productive contacts with Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar and its environs, rather than ignoring them or dismissing them as Al Qaeda fronts.

The Iranian government is about as schizophrenic as they come, and they will likely screw things up, mostly for themselves. End result, Iranian intervention in Iraq, which will come to failure.