I’m with you Mick, with a few notable exceptions the Sunnis weren’t doing squat about ISIS leading up to this war.
I would go further and say they, especially the Gulf states, were actively backing and financing ISIS. I think the West is taking the wrong side in this Islamic civil war.
It was the Saudi sunnis who attacked the US in 9/11, it was the sunnis who led the insurgency against the US in Iraq, Iran, on the other hand, hasn’t been a threat to the West in a quarter of a century or more.
I agree with Kissinger’s belief that it’s a pity they both can’t lose but the idea that the theocratic medieval backward sand kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the friend of the West beggars belief in my book.