Your question is an oversimplification.

There is a civil war for power in Iraq which was inevitable with Saddam's downfall. Saddam assassinated the leader of Iraq and took over. The guy that took Saddam's place was going to have to fight his way into power also.

There is a religious war overlayed onto the whole area and Israeli's latest problems are mostly part of that.

The latest world war has started, it is between the oil producing nations and the oil companies against the oil consuming nations. An example would be Putin in Russia. His power is based on the price of oil. Low oil prices, no power.

Like I have said before, people in the US don't even know who their enemies are, or what the battle is about, much less how to win a war.

We are sheep treated like mushrooms.