Before T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman’s there was no such thing as Arab Nationalism. Iraq was in the vanguard of the movement towards Arab unity. Proponents of Pan-Arabism hoped to turn Iraq into the Prussia of the Middle East, into a nationalist prototype for the rest of the Arab world. Iraq became an independent State in 1932 and this set off an in-house war and the jockeying for power between indigenous Kurds, Assyrians, Persians, Azides, tribal conflicts with Arab Nationalists, which again sparked Sunni Shiite conflicts. It is over 9 decades later and what has changed?? —That is a question that you keep dodging