Redrawing the Middle East

[Cubby]

I'm always amazed at the hostility whenever the subject of re-drawing borders comes up. People are so afraid of change.

A few ideas on the above map:

Syria and the Sunni Arab State should be joined, since as others have said the latter wouldn't have any resources.

I love the idea of a Free Kurdistan. They have suffered enough over the years and deserve a home of their own. But friendship with Turkey is extremely important to the U.S. (as it should be) and I realize they would never except this, so that would be a big stumbling block.

The remainder of Pakistan is too small. As far as I'm concerned, the state never should have existed, it was only created because Jinnah was all paranoid back in the 1940's that India would subjugate the Muslims after the British left. As we can see today, with 100 million Muslims still in India, Jinnah was wrong.