Reply #2: Technically, isn't it a Sectarian rather than a Civil War? (Sunni vs. Shia

[barbaraann]

For the life of me I can't figure out how it can be stopped without either a) a brutal dictatorship , b) partition or c) genocide of one sect (excluding the possibility of both sects becoming secular). It seems to me that calling it a Civil War implies that after hostilites are over there can be peace based on a simple switch of civic allegiance by the defeated parties, but in the case of a Sectarian War it would require far more to insure peace.