Padahal tidak, kedua negara sudah ingin bersatu sejak dahulu.
Pertama, baik raja yang berkuasa di Suriah dan belakangan di Irak adalah keturunan Syarif Husein yang sekarang bersisa hanya di Yordania.
Kedua, Partai Baath yang berkuasa di Suriah dan Irak pernah hampir berhasil menyatukan kedua negara. Justru saat itu Saddam Husein tidak setuju.
Penyatuan dua negara juga pernah dilakukan oleh Suriah dan Mesir dan akhirnya gagal.
Dan bukan sebuah kebetulan pentolan ISIS adalah orang-orang Partai Baath dan eks militer Saddam Husein.
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Efforts by Syrians and Iraqis to unite Iraq and Syria into one country have existed since the creation of the modern states. Such unification efforts were to continue under the Ba'ath Party. Hostility between Syria and Iraq started in the 1966 when both were under Ba'athist rule. Relations improved in the early 1970s during the Yom Kippur War, but deteroriated again following Syria's acceptance of the UN-sponsored ceasefire.
After the 1973 War, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad made several attempts in 1974 and 1975 to settle his differences with Iraq (arising from Syria's acceptance of UN Resolution 338 which led to the ceasefire in the 1973 War; Iraq withdrew the expeditionary force it had sent to help Syria as a result of Syria's acceptance of the ceasefire) and establish a union between the two countries. Iraq however rejected Assad's offers and denounced him for his "readiness to make peace" with Israel. Strained relations between Iraq and Syria would continue up until 1978.
By October 1978, Iraq President, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr began working closely with Assad to foil the Camp David Accords; signing in Baghdad a charter for Joint National Action which provided for the "closest form of unity ties" including "complete military unity" as well as "economic, political and cultural unification".
In 1978 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Hafez al-Assad, had agreed to a plan and started to make treaties that would lead to the unification of Iraq and Syria. This plan was to come into effect in July 1979. However, Saddam Hussein, the Deputy Secretary of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, fearful of losing his power to Assad (who was supposed to become the deputy leader in the new union), forced al-Bakr into retirement under threat of violence.
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