That was Henry Kissinger’s famous sally about the war between Iran and Iraq, back in the 80s. Now, the big rivals in that part of the world are not actually nations, in the conventional sense. They are, rather, movements with aspirations to more than just physical territory. They are out to conquer the the Muslim world. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bridget Moreng write at Politico, both al Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) are on the offensive and