How a better Middle East would look?

Here is a provocative commentary in Armed Forces Journal.... The author, Ralph Peters, suggests that breaking up coutries in the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia by ethnicity and culture would solve some of the problems in that part of the world.

Here are the before and after maps...

Here are some excerpts.

"International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.

The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa's borders continue to provoke the deaths of millions of local inhabitants. But the unjust borders in the Middle East — to borrow from Churchill — generate more trouble than can be consumed locally.

While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone — from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism — the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region's comprehensive failure isn't Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats. "

WHO WINS, WHO LOSES

Winners —

Afghanistan
Arab Shia State
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Free Baluchistan
Free Kurdistan
Iran
Islamic Sacred State
Jordan
Lebanon
Yemen

Losers —

Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Kuwait
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
West Bank

My question is why would a country like Pakistan and Turkey be willing to give away a big chunk of their territory? One has to agree that Britain and France messed up the whole area during the beginning of the 20th century. But that doesnt mean that US has to mess it up even more now in the early part of the 21st century. I think this is a recipe for World War 3...

Here is a rebuttal to this article "Bordering on Insanity - Redrawing MidEast map wont work" in Newsweek.