What can be learned is that this fighting/rivalry gone on for thousands of years between Sunni and Shiite and will never end. Superpowers’ intervention will NEVER solve the difference between factions until starving to death. Egypt is trying!!!
And we will not do one thing to change the centuries old rivalries. Syria was created by the super powers of the day out of a rabble of tribes that hate each other. Pretty much the same thing goes for the rest of the ME.
We will never change their hatred for each other. They are not suited for either democracy or a republic. The only thing that works there is a DICTATORSHIP. Long live the DICTATORSHIPS of the ME! Keep the oil flowing until we finally figure out something else to run the free world. HOw those people live, or how any other people live is not our business and never has been. We need to clean around our own back doors and only respond to threats to how we live.
Time to stop being the goody two shoes to the world. We don’t need to export obesity, dependence and immature children to the rest of the world.