John Eibner, director of Christian Solidarity International and anti-slavery activist, shares his wisdom on the future of Syria on The Tablet blogs, including reflections on the
collective desire of the West, Turkey and Gulf States to establish a
Sunni Salafist state in Syria as a bulwark against Iranian power.
This
failed policy let the Sunni jihadi genie out of its bottle in Syria to
create the ‘opposition’, which led to the creation of the Islamic State
and disintegration of Syria and Iraq. The only rational solution, Eibner argues,
is a return to a policy of supporting a secular state.
However the more likely outcome is a long and cruel proxy war
which only finishes when the fighting-age manpower of Syria is
exhausted – i.e. when a generation of young men has been killed or fled
the region.
Along the way there are serious risks that
tensions will escalate between the external powers whose proxy war this is. e.g. Iran
vs the Gulf States, or Russian vs. Turkey (as we have seen this past week with the downing of a Russian Jet by Turkey).
This is what the post-American Middle East looks like.
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