CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Centered in Syria, the great Muslim civil war approaches

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Centered in Syria, the great Muslim civil war approaches
Charles Krauthammer Jun 25, 2017

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on?

It might appear a mindless mess, but the outlines are clear. The great Muslim civil war, centered in Syria, is approaching its post-Islamic State phase. It's the end of the beginning. The parties are maneuvering to shape what comes next.

It's Europe, 1945, when the war was still raging against Nazi Germany, but everyone already knew the outcome. The maneuvering was largely between the approaching victors -- the Soviet Union and the Western democracies -- to determine postwar boundaries and spheres of influence.

So it is today in Syria. Everyone knows that the Islamic State is finished. Not that it will disappear as an ideology, insurgency and source of continuing terrorism both in the region and the West. But it will disappear as an independent, organized, territorial entity in the heart of the Middle East.

Continued: http://siouxcityjournal.com/opinion/columnists/charles-krauthammer-centered-in-syria-the-great-muslim-civil-war/article_08bf687c-83fe-5830-92c4-3547a907dfef.html

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We of The West should welcome and encourage this.

The more the muslims have at each other, the greater the death toll rises as they kill each other off, the better the outcome for us.

What we must do at the same time, is to cut off all "refugee vectors", and let no more of them invade dar al-harb.