Writing in the Wall Street Journal's online OpinionJournal, Edward Luttwak has an interesting view of the unrest in Iraq. He believes the U.S. unwittingly has executed the first half of the old "divide and conquer" strategy. That is, Shia and Sunni are well and truly divided; killing each other in wholesale numbers.
Now the trick will be to play off one side against the other so they continue to fight each other instead of the U.S. The British were very good at this tactic in the 19th century when they were the world's only superpower.
