SHIA-SUNNI Conflict

The business wrote an excellent piece this week on the Shia-Sunni conflict in Iraq. It is a conflict we all know something vaguely about in the West but we have never really seen it unleashed. We blame the Americans and British for their current policies but its roots go back much deeper as I think we are all aware. The nation states that were forged in the region by the British and French.I also think about Jared Diamond whenever I watch clips on the TV about the desert nature of Iraq. The term Fertile Crescent is nothing but a sick joke, is what he said. The land looks incredibly infertile, and the land is always the first place that poor people can eek a living. Coupled with this it is obviously a pressure cooker that has been kept under control and now it has been unleashed.Now the business talks about the potential of conflict between Shia and Sunni nuclear states Iran v Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Thought provoking and quite frightening reading.