“If Trump can make something more stable out of that hellhole region, it will be a remarkable, beautiful thing. And, he would succeed where none have in most of our lifetimes”
I don’t expect stable or sane. But if Egypt, Saudi, Jordan, Israel and the UAE hold a more or less united front against the crazies, that leaves Iran and Turkey to joust for leadership of the bad guys. Our goal would then be to prevent either of them from winning.
Stable... quasi-stable... anything is better than continual chaos. If sanity can be encouraged in the manner you say... that would be fantastic.
Your take is that Turkey is on the path to an attempted reconstruction of Ottoman Sunni glory, that Iran wants the Caliphate to be Sunni, and that most of the others can be persuaded to a less ambitious, less messianic path. I hope you’re right.