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Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by dragonwriter on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:17AM (#14415828)
> What libertarians would probably want first in Iraq is to let ethnic and religious groups to have the control of their own territory and abolish or weaken the central government as much as possible.

Except for the Kurds, that doesn't seem to be want the groups in Iraq want. I wasn't aware that libertarians were generally in favor of imposed religious- and/or ethnicity-based balkanization against the will of the people.

I suspect that would actually work against libertarianism, also, because greater ideological uniformity in the constituency would support more authoritarian government (light touch is a way of accommodating divergent interests which would be eliminated).

Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by afsina on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:36AM (#14416056)
AFAIK, Libertarians are not Utopians. If there is a choice, they prefer decentralization and secession. Underlying reason is not important (Ethnic and religious, or ideological). Besides, from what I know, in large sovereign states and large democracies minority or ruled ethnic and religious groups always suffer. Because they will be imposed the ruling groups culture, language and curriculum. If they want, they should have at least a degree of self control and identity.
Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by Pica_soO on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:19AM (#14416005)
Eh all other groups want the whole country and the other groups pressed to geno-cidere?

Thats not a ideology thing, that is more a "Real-Politics" that worked with pakistan and india - kind of approach.