The Best Wars are the Ones Your Enemies Fight Against One Another

And suddenly, without much fanfare, we get down to the brass tacks. I'll not live long enough to find out for sure, but I would bet my bottom dollar that when the history of this age is written a few generations hence, Anglo-American intelligence* will be found to have somehow set the Moslems at one another's throats.

*And probably MI6 in the main, as we don't tend to be the most subtle people around. We can blow stuff up real good, though.