The Assad Alawites (Shiites) will not retain control of Syria no matter how much help they get from the Iranians and Russians. The Kurds will have to settle for a country in what used to be Iraq, and a confederated minority in Turkey. Sunni Iraq, around Baghdad, will have to be some sort of Turco-Egyptian protectorate. The Saudis and Iranians may have to partition Yemen, and the Saudis may have to subdue or even expel the Shiites of Bahrain. The Palestinians will finally have to take the state the Israelis give them. Everyone agrees that the outright terrorists, ISIL and the others, will have to be crushed and those Muslim powers who have played footsie with the terrorists will have to be disincentivized, perhaps quite brutally, from any such practice.

