re: #92 Dr Lizardo

You could look at it this way as well; the Sunnis in Iraq were basically a privileged group and the Shi’a were quite blatantly persecuted under Saddam Hussein’s regime (even though the Ba’athist’s were ostensibly secular). Once that fulcrum of power in Iraq shifted from the Sunnis to the Shi’a, and the Sunni felt that their privilege was being taken away from them, they revolted. And Da’esh is both a product and a beneficiary of that revolt.

And we’re not above that sort of behavior. Look at the minor disturbance that resulted from a power elite feeling the fulcrum starting to shift after the 1860 election.