I have long written here on FR that those 3 people cannot get along and will war against each other. The Brits weren’t real smart after WWI about the way they broke up the Ottoman Empire.
The Brits absolutely ignored the Kurds and it’s been a problem ever since. Iraq is not an ancient country. It was arbitrarily patched together by British politicians after WWI ignoring people groups.
My husband basically says the same thing that you do. Britain carved the countries up wrong.
“I have long written here on FR that those 3 people cannot get along and will war against each other. The Brits werent real smart after WWI about the way they broke up the Ottoman Empire.”
xzins, this interesting history was provided by fitzy_888 this week to back what you have been posting for a long time re the Sunnis and Shites:
Why the Sunnis and Shites hate and kill each other, courtesy of Fitzy_888 :
This blood feud dates from the beginning of Islam, a tribe that would later be Sunnis from Syria beheaded Mohammeds grandson (the Mohammed) and brought his head to Damascus as a trophy. Sunnis broke the blood line of the prophet, this is why zealous Shiites will kill Syrian Sunnis with zeal. It dates back to the four caliph, under the fourth successor to Mohammed, Mohammeds cousin...also his son-in-law. Mohammeds cousin married Mohammeds daughter Fatima, their son and heir to the Islamic caliphate was killed by a tribe from present day Syria who would later identify as Sunni.
Iran having a Shiite majority already has military forces fighting ISIS (Sunni) in Syria along side their
proxy Hezzbulah.