Demagogue

In his column in today's New York Times, David Brooks writes of a conversation he had with Peter Galbraith about recent developments in Iraq. Galbraith is the former U.S. ambassador to Croatia.

In the column, Galbraith is quoted as follows regarding efforts to create separate, autonomous states within modern-day Iraq:

"It's not a problem if a country breaks up, only if it breaks up violently. Iraq wasn't created by God. It was created by Winston Churchill."