Breaking News: Biden for Limited Government (Fine Print: But Only for Iraqis)

Plugged-in Sen. Joe Biden, in a New York Times op-ed today, has proposed partitioning Iraq, saying that a weak central government will help the country's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds live together in perfect harmony.

The idea, as in Bosnia, is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group — Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab — room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests. We could drive this in place with irresistible sweeteners for the Sunnis to join in, a plan designed by the military for withdrawing and redeploying American forces, and a regional nonaggression pact.

Irresistible sweeteners? What is that, some sort of plan to make every Iraqi Equal? If so, what a Splenda idea!

Biden continues:

The central government would control border defense, foreign affairs and oil revenues. Baghdad would become a federal zone, while densely populated areas of mixed populations would receive both multisectarian and international police protection.

Decentralization is hardly as radical as it may seem: the Iraqi Constitution, in fact, already provides for a federal structure...

So does ours, asshole. It actually requires it. And you don't pay it any mind. Or is your RAVE Act what passes as "common interests"?