For instance look at Basra. It has the potential to be another Qatar but people live in misery, full of trash everywhere, all officials are extremely corrupt, few investments are made, few new infrastructure built etc. all while being peaceful for years. That's called letting your people down. Second biggest city in Iraq. Richest area of Iraq in terms of resources.
The situation is even worse in many other areas of Iraq. All this while Iraq is full of oil and gas. Local leaders are to be blamed. The mentality of people etc. Their sectarianism etc. A healthy society will not collapse in such a fashion. Same is happening in Syria as that society was never healthy either.
@SALMAN AL-FARSI
There are not 400 million Shias. Shia's form around approximately 15-10% of the 1.6-1.7 billion Muslims. There are for instance almost zero Shia's in Africa, South East Asia, Central Asia etc.
The only 3 majority Shia countries in the world are 9 million big Azerbaijan (highly secular with a sizable Sunni Muslim minority), Iraq (60% or so) and Iran. Bahrain is 50-50 nowadays and besides the population there is 1.5 million or so.
There won't be any major wars either. If people really wanted to kill each other there would not be 2-3 million Shias in KSA anymore, Zaydis in Yemen or Shias anywhere outside of Azerbaijan, Iraq and Iran.
@SALMAN AL-FARSI
LOL, that photo has nothing to do with KSA. It's some strange Afro-Arab. Bedouins form less than 0,5% of the population. Bedouins sure as hell don't look like that. They are Caucasian people. Even those that intermarried with Africans retain their Caucasian/ME features. Don't make me laugh.
100 years ago there were as many "Bedouins" in Iraq as in KSA. Goes for most of the ME.
People from Southern Iraq and Najd are basically the same people too.
التوزع السكاني[عدل]
الوضع عام 1867 م[عدل]
كان عدد سكان العراق عام
1867م وفقاً للدكتور محمد سلمان حسن في بحث نشره معهد الإحصاء في جامعة أكسفورد لا يتجاوز المليون وربع إلا قليلاً
[7][8] أما فئات السكان الثلاث فكانت نسبتهم كما يلي:
- القبائل البدوية: 35% من مجموع السكان.
- القبائل الريفية: 41% من مجموع السكان.
- أهل المدن: 24% من مجموع السكان.[9][10]
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/سكان_العراق
Bedouins back then just meant people who moved frequently anyway. There were hardly any true Bedouins back then. Bedouins are Caucasian people and one of the oldest peoples in the world. They were/are talented poets, musicians, their hospitality is second to none and they formed the backbone of some of the largest empires the world has seen.
Rather have 0,5-1% Bedouins than a similar number of Gypsies;
Gypsies in Iraq performing dances;
Here you have an Iraqi Afro-Arab from Kut (playing for the Iraqi national football team) that has similar features.
Both those two look like Dravidians, lol. Only idiots believe that the average person looks like that. It's less than 1%. It's due to the Arab slave trade or recent arrivals. South Asians were imported to the ME too to work in plantations in Southern Iraq and Eastern Arabia. Well-documented. Only takes a Southern Indian and a Black African to marry each other and you will have people who look this exotic/strange. No offense to them.