Car bombs kill 20 in Turkish town near Syrian border

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20. Except that Peter's personal proposal is outdated.

It leaves the Palestinians out in the cold, and pretends that Sunni Syria and Jordan are homogenously Sunni.

They're not. There'd obviously be a bit of a division between urban moderates and rural/village Salafis. It's likely that Anbar in Iraq would feel more affinity with eastern Syrians than with many in Damascus. There'd be population dislocations, but nothing that we haven't seen lead to peace before--if we let them happen.

That particular split wasn't that obvious in Syria before. Now it is. The question is, Will the splitting happen before it's impossible to implement that division or later. My guess is later, which using Peters' methodology would lead to a more or less combined Shuro-Iraq state.

Peters' methodology isn't all bad. We complain about how horrible imperialist/colonialist-drawn borders are and how borders should reflect national or ethnic boundaries. Then we insist on the sanctity of imperialist/colonialist drawn borders, especially when they're drawn by non-Western imperialists/colonialists like the Persians or the Turks--both expansion empires that cling to conquered peoples and territories and have active relocation/forced-assimiliation campaigns. With "progressive" blessing.