Kurdish Oil Ban: What it Means

Aug 14, 2014 | Wealth Daily
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Divide and conquer – the most effective tactic of any insurrection – seems to be giving the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) all the momentum in its push to confiscate Iraqi territory.

Exceptionally violent, vicious and murderous though they are, unintelligent they are not. They know precisely how to vanquish the Iraqi nation: by pushing like a wedge through the center of the country and dividing it in half along its two ethnic and religious lines – separating the Sunni Kurds to the north from the Shiite Iraqis to the south.

Rather than set aside their differences and unite against a common foe who is threatening to tear their nation apart, the two regional factions in Iraq are playing right into ISIS’ hand by quarrelling between themselves. And of all issues, they are arguing over the last thing they can afford to fight about – oil, and who has the right to sell it.