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John Bolton: To Defeat ISIS, Create a Sunni State

I don't get it. So the Sunni Arabs have been talking about pan-Arabism for the better part of a century now, gotten nowhere with it, and now the US is talking about giving them what they wanted on a silver platter?

How is this a problem?
 
The West isn't creating sectarian conflicts. Iranians have created their own sectarian conflicts by supporting Shi'ite death squads and a corrupt sectarian government in Iraq.
 
The West isn't creating sectarian conflicts. Iranians have created their own sectarian conflicts by supporting Shi'ite death squads and a corrupt sectarian government in Iraq.

This was always the natural status quo in Iraq. Saddam's entire regime was one big sectarian conflict in which one particular side had dominance over the others, and waged occasional gas attacks to prove it.
 
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