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Originally Posted by nik-
As horrible as this is, how do you intervene in what's basically going to turn into a holy war? This is a cold war between Iran and Saudi Arabia ... do we really want either side to win?
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That's a strange way to frame it. Those governments are relatively stable and their officially opposing religions aren't driving this conflict. This is not some kind of cold war proxy war between the two countries. This is bad economically and politically for everyone. This is about sectarian conflicts in the Levant (regions like Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, etc.) due to instability and historic grievances between families, tribes, sects, and driven to bloodthirsty zeal by religious rhetoric. Some of this stuff has been going on for decades.
Watch this and you get a feeling of how those historic tensions cause neighbours to kill their neighbours and how the cycle just feeds on mistrust and hate. It really is a sectarian ethnic cleanse going on with each side committing more atrocities in revenge for things the other side has done and it goes on and on until eventually one group takes control.