If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war.

Is it wise and advisable to wade into a sectarian civil war two thousand miles away? Just examine the trajectory of sectarian violence over the last decade.

Most people in the West regard Syria s civil war as a continuation of the sectarian violence in Iraq.

Equally ominous, the banning of hundreds of candidates for alleged ties to the Baath Party signals a return to sectarian politics, which could reignite a sectarian civil war.

Civil war along sectarian lines could well predominate, or fighting between the various anti Assad opposition groups could erupt.

This is why Syria s civil war is now a geopolitical battle for regional domination, with multiple fractures along sectarian lines.

Likewise, the revival of the Shia Sunni civil war in Iraq largely reflects the sectarian rule of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.

Syria, which once welcomed thousands of Christians fleeing war torn Iraq, is experiencing an analogous change, as the country s increasingly sectarian civil war generates fear and mistrust throughout the population.

The rapid Shiite rise has already turned into a sectarian civil war in Iraq and recently has threatened to generate the same outcome in Lebanon.

PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict.

He worked assiduously to fan the flames of sectarian civil war, succeeding to the extent that now the chief reason for not intervening to stop the killing is the impossibility of doing so effectively in an environment of sectarian violence.

Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.

It can choose to lead the Middle East into vibrant multi sectarian democracy or slump back into corrupt local politics under foreign tutelage. The latter path could easily lead to civil strife and, perhaps, another civil war.

There are ominous indications that the relative forbearance of this group may end. If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war.

Some Syrians who oppose President Bashar al Assad s regime, pointing to Baghdad in 2005, argue that the one thing worse than a cruel dictator is a sectarian civil war.

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno sectarian patchwork.

Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.

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To be sure, Bush s new strategy is highly unlikely to help Iraqis avert a slide into sectarian civil war. A temporary 16 boost in troops simply is not enough to get that job done.

What they produced instead was an electocracy that, in the absence of liberal institutions, replaced the tyranny of the Sunni minority with a tyranny of the Shiite majority and a religious sectarian civil war.

Whatever the true figure, the involvement of large numbers of Iraqis is not the secret it was in the early months of Syria's civil war, which is now being fought along a sectarian faultline.

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None of Iraq s neighbors, including Iran, would benefit from sectarian conflict that grows into a regional war.

Syria s internal conflict has now become a Sunni Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the region.

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Nusra has also arrested civil society activists, including journalists and local council members, and has been responsible for sectarian attacks.

In fact, Dagher wrote an article called when warlords become presidential candidates nearly two years ago saying that the candidates are of the civil war era, their programs are of the civil war era, the parties are of the civil war era, the lawmakers are of the civil war era, the absence of parliamentary elections is of the civil war era, and even our former overlord to the East is in a civil war.

Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad s overthrow has exacerbated the country s own longstanding sectarian tensions.

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The Lebanese, and the Al Jazeera viewing Arab public in general, should simply forget the militant group's recent history of turning its weapons on its fellow Lebanese and precipitating a sectarian rift rivaling that of country's 15 year civil war.

The Syrian civil war may be the most documented war in history.

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REGIONAL WAR, CIVIL INSURGENCE, OR POLITICAL CRISES

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The latter path could easily lead to civil strife and, perhaps, another civil war.

Syria s civil war has occurred in two phases.

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Then Syria s civil war came to their neigborhood.

This sparked the brief but bitter civil war.