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As I see it we have two wars going. The first and most difficult is the Sunni and Shi'a dispute for power. The reality is that as soon as the US is out of the picture the Sunni are gone and they know it. How the Kurds will play in this is any ones guess. Mine is that they will cozy up to the Turks and cut an oil deal for military support (treaty).
It seems clear that the Sunni are opposing the elections because it would mean that the US might pull out and leave them at the mercy Shi'a consequently they keep the war going hoping for a miracle. Strange as it may seem we are the only allies the Sunni have.
The second war is the foreign influence that we call terrorist and will disappear once there is stability in the government and the common people cease to support them.
The real solution is to neutralize the formal governments in the middle east and allow the people to restructure according to religion and culture----but for the oil.