THE U.S. TURN TO IRAN WILL INVOLVE IT IN MUSLIM CONFLICT
“It is rare that a great power in world politics, after
decades of hostility with another country, turns around and suddenly seeks to
embrace that country as a friend, if not an ally. Yet this is what the recent
United States demarche towards Iran represents…
The term of art for such a turn of events in diplomatic
and military history is renversement des alliances (reversal or overturning
of alliances), and it is so rare that one can find only a few examples in the
last three centuries. ..
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[Presently] The transnational civil war between Sunni and
Shi'ite Muslims has been under way, and not only in the Middle East, for some
time already.
All historical reasoning points to the prospect that the
American renversement des alliances towards Iran will only accelerate that
conflict… Further: this transnational civil war, still intensifying, has been
and remains, and will inescapably continue to be, one in which casualties
also to non-Muslims, on nearly every continent, are collateral, and indeed
very often not-so-collateral, damage.”
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