[Robert Teesdale]

So... the Sunni/Shia schism will melt away under this long-awaited Caliphate? Did the 12th Imam/well prediction happen when we weren’t looking?

Doesn't need the 12th Imam. Simply needs secular imagination, wedded to absolute ideology, equipped with practical momentum.

They have all three.

[txhurl]

What rough beast from Bethlehem......

Well, if they coalesce, it sure relieves us of wasted diplomatic endeavors..... like here in Texas we didn’t
stall to ask ‘you comanche, apache, or cherokee?’

If your theory is correct, Baghdad will not fall, it will *lay down* and be absorbed.