Mideast’s worst case: A ‘big war’ pitting Shia Muslims against Sunni
McClatchy NewspapersJune 10, 2015
ISTANBUL — The Middle East crisis that peaked one year ago Wednesday when the Islamic State captured Mosul may result in the breakup of Iraq and an indefinite continuation of a war in Syria that’s already out of control, analysts say.
Yet still worse things could happen.
“The conditions are very much like 1914,” says Michael Stephens of the Royal United Service Institute in London. “All it will take is one little spark, and Iran and Saudi Arabia will go at each other, believing they are fighting a defensive war.”
Hiwa Osman, an Iraqi Kurdish commentator, was even more blunt: “The whole region is braced for the big war, the war that has not yet happened, the Shiite-Sunni war.”
U.S. and foreign experts say the U.S still has not developed a strategy for dealing with the Sunni extremists who now hold more territory Iraq and Syria than one year ago. President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged that the U.S. strategy in Iraq was a work in progress. “We don’t have, yet, a complete strategy, because it requires commitments on the part of Iraqis as well,” Obama said at the close of the G-7 summit in Germany. “The details are not worked out.”
The experts criticize America’s detachment from the four wars now under way in the region. And they say the Obama administration is banking on Iran to stabilize the region, a very dubious course.
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Seeing articles like this really upsets me. What is war going to solve? The Sunni and Shia Muslims need to put religion aside and start seeing people as just people. They can learn a little bit from Americans.
ReplyDeleteSometimes humanity lets religion dictate their present and future actions and everything is based on what happened thousands of years ago. Differences must be put aside, sacrifices made and compromises reached to be able to achieve a concrete and healthy solution to this long lasting hatred, which may as well lead to a full blown conflict soon. Common ground must be established and unity achieved to be able to ease the pain that is coming tot he middle east.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy to know that this is going on in the world. If only they could see the pain this causes many people.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of how religion creates more suffering than salvation. Last time I checked the Quran it teaches about love through the word of god, not hatred for one another. Senseless violence is cruel and upsetting for me, especially when both parties follow the same rubric.
ReplyDeleteThe "breakup" of Iraq and Syria was bound to happen at some point, as the boundaries on the map in the Middle East go back to Western colonialism, and are not aligned with cultural demographics. It's why we've seen sectarian violence in Iraq previously, as you have a "country" created in boundaries that contain Sunni, Shia and Kurds as majority players, none who wish to play nice with the other.
ReplyDeleteWow. Truly impacting to see how some people have to destroy others to make there point. This will solve nothing. This will bring more problems and deaths that are unnecessary because in the end. No side will be permanently destroyed.
ReplyDeleteWow. Truly impacting to see how some people have to destroy others to make there point. This will solve nothing. This will bring more problems and deaths that are unnecessary because in the end. No side will be permanently destroyed.
ReplyDeleteI find this crazy how descendants from Muhammad could eventually fight each other in a war
ReplyDeleteWhat it happens in the world is somewhat is a war for me. The terrorist which happened in Paris is the exact problem that happened in reality. Don't make the scenario worse.
ReplyDeleteCrazy to see how wars like this are going on around the world. If only they knew how much it destroys and causes pain to people.
ReplyDeleteCrazy to see how wars like this are going on around the world. If only they knew how much it destroys and causes pain to people.
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