Knowing Civil War is Coming if only in The Cellar

The Civil War in Iraq is already old news What interests me is if Jared Dimond will prove correct on his theories on how nations come into being. Once such way is for previously warring factions to form alliances to repel the invader. The Cherokee did this in the US and some 300 chiefdoms formed an alliance that gave settlers in the South-East US a run for their money.

Wouldn't it be fun if someone dropped translations of Dimond into Arabic all over the Sunni and Shiite held areas of Iraq?

Meanwhile, anyone who thinks the US hasn't worsened ethic tensions in Iraq has a gumball machine for a head.

What if someone invaded the US and told all the African-Americans, "we're on your side bro's. Aren't you fed up with what's been happening under the Bush and other regimes? Wouldn't you like to be free at last?" I don't know how the majority of A.A.'s would respond to this, but I do know that if I wanted to avoid a revolution, I wouldn't run around antagonizing ethnic groups (or supporting one over the other).