[Bobboau]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Qatar-Supports-Sending-Arab-Troops-to-Syria-137348168.html

[achtung]

Not going to happen. Iran would start ****ting all over itself pretty quick.

[Bobboau]

and that would stop this from happening how? keep in mind we are just looking for any excuse in the world to bomb the **** out of Iran ATM, if anything i think that makes it more likely this could happen.

[MP-Ryan]

Indeed, the Middle East as a whole has no love for Iran.

[achtung]

That doesn't mean they are itching for what would surely be an unpopular, expensive, and domestically destabilizing war. Popular unrest does seem to be a trend in the region lately after all.

[MP-Ryan]

That doesn't mean they are itching for what would surely be an unpopular, expensive, and domestically destabilizing war. Popular unrest does seem to be a trend in the region lately after all.

All the more reason to direct that energy elsewhere - like an agitating neighboring state, ruled by a fundamentalist version of an Islamic sect different from your own.  The only thing the fundamentalist Islamic religious leadership in various Middle Eastern states hate as much or more than the West are other branches of Islam.  Hence the civil war that broke out in Iraq after Saddam was ousted.

[NGTM-1R]

And even aside from that, there are deep historical enmities and racial hatreds between the Persians and the Arabs.

[Flipside]

Indeed, also, it is only Islamic frontmen who describe Islam as a religion that is 'united' in it's belief. Similar to the Protestant/Catholic divide in Christianity, there is the Sunni/Shiite divide in Islam.

I've said before that there seems to be a certain degree of relation between physics and psychology in this respect, the larger a structure becomes the more unstable and likely to schism it will tend to be. This is why, for all the sabre-rattling, no religion, state or organization will ever 'rule the world'. It's just too big.