Experts predicting a poor future for Iraq

(Niall )Ferguson sees turmoil possibly spreading through the Middle East as religious and ethnic groups finally sort themselves out, almost a century after Turkey’s vast Ottoman Empire broke apart at World War I’s end and the British and French rearranged the pieces to suit their interests.

In his classic study of those times, “A Peace to End All Peace,” Boston University’s Fromkin quoted an American missionary who warned the British in Baghdad against tying Arab and Kurdish provinces, Sunni and Shiite provinces together: “You are flying in the face of four millenniums of history if you try to draw a line around Iraq and call it a political entity!”

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