The Battle for Iraq is a Saudi War on Iran

The whole area is acting like pre-enlightenment Europe. Europe took about 200 years to absorb enlightenment. The political core of the Enlightenment was the loss of religion's hold on the state. The concepts may (or may not) have started emerging with the "Arab Spring." As enlightenment in the ME spreads (a wishful thought) we can expect hundreds of years of carnage like that which gripped the West. When the ME equivalent of the EU emerges, it may not be pretty for Europe, the US, India or China. American intervention (absent major use of nukes) will be irrelevant in the long run.

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