DavidWLazar

It takes a lot of work and must stay focused on our ultimate goal. Iraq after June 10th, when ISIS occupied the Ninawa Province is different than Iraq before that date. Non-Muslim minorities. Iraq without its ethno-religious minorities will be an even more horrible place than it is now.

It's not possible to have a monocultural Iraq. The country is made of a mosaic of people with different langauge, ethnic backgorounds and religious sects. Iraq will never be like the US a "melting pot" but more like Switzerland where different ethnicities live in peace with each others by ruling themselves on a local level and in true partnership in ruling the country.

Western nations will always meddle in the affairs of the Middle East and other places in the world, this is becuuse what they perceive as national interests. Some of the meddling is positive, most of the time however, it's negative. The west didn't create the annymosity between Shiites and Sunnis, it has been there for centuries, the west simply plays these differences for its own national interests, it's up to the people of the ME and their leaders to be wise enough to know they're being used to further outside agends.

We're Chaldean, Assyrian and Syriac. We use the Assyrian name because our ancestral lands are in Historical Assyria. Our national struggle for the last 150 years or so has been unde the Assyrian name. I'm also proud of the Chaldean name and if people ask me if I was a Chaldean, my answer is yes; I'm Chaldean, Assyrian and Syriac.

An excellent question. We're not against people wanting to leave their ancestral lands, but encouraging them to leave by offering more visas than the existing numbers is not a solution. Please keep in mind that the west is mainly "importing" Christians, there are others that are being persecuted such as the Yezidis, Shabaks, Shiaa Turkomen, they should be given visas as well, otherwise European countries, the US, Canada and Australia would be discriminating against non-christian ethno-religious minorities.