Azerbaijan is not a Muslim theocracy. It has been a long standing friend to the US and Israel and faces threats from Russia and Iran. This is not an Azeri invasion of Armenia. It is a border dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian area given to the Azerbainjani SSR.They fought a war over this 25 years ago. Most Azeris were ethnically cleansed, but the region remains contested.
20 years ago, I wrote a paper, where I suggested that this conflict would continue indefinitely until there was full ethnic cleansing and annexation. The paper was poorly received in an IR class, but I stand by my assertions. (My assessment of the long term prospects of Islamic terror relating to Chechnya and Circassia are even more depressing.)
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04/06/2016 4:57:03 PM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")