RE: should america support Israel?
August 6, 2014 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2014 at 9:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 6, 2014 at 9:08 pm)bberryhill0 Wrote: The Sunni and Shia have been fighting for 1300 years. Why would they get their act together now?
Even while they had been fighting, they had their act very much together, more so than anyone else, more so than any Europeans, the Jews, the Byzantines, or even the chinese, several times during those 1300 years. Several times in the last 1300 years Islamic states managed to make themselves amongst the most advanced, most progressive, wealthiest, and most militarily powerful in the world.
Don't think Sunni and Shia conflict would present any insurmountable obstacle to the rise of a cohesive, modern, and determined Arab or Islamic force on the scale of several hundred years. Also, any conflict based on historic concerns rather than ongoing material conflicts of interst is bond to come to an end sooner or later. I suspect the difference between Sunni and Shia will subside into something more similar to catholic Protestant divide in Europe as Islamic world modernizes over next several hundred years.
