Hodgepodge is right. Actually none of the present day so-called countries in the M.E. region are ‘real countries’, they were all artifically drawn up on the map by the Brits and French, except Egypt and Iran. Caliphates in Iraq have a long history too. They’ve come and gone. I doubt this will be a long lasting Caliphate should it ever be established.
That’s why I don’t understand why we got so worked up about Saddam going into Kuwait, it was just an intra-Arab issue. Why was it our business?