The Sunni-Shia Sectarian War

Originally posted February 23, 2015.

Ex-head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, offers some Sunni-Shia perspective:

The stage is thus set for a regional sectarian war, which after nearly twenty years of U.S. and Western Islamist-motivating intervention accompanied by military, diplomatic, and political incompetence, may be the best near-term means for improving U.S. and Western security. For now, the U.S. and NATO governments ought to step aside, let the Sunni-Shia sectarian war take its course, and urgently address the pathetic and steadily worsening mess they have made of civil liberties and domestic security in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Read more from Scheuer in his books, Marching Toward Hell, and Osama bin Laden.