Subdivided minorities do not understand each other.

Minorities rule in India and are protected by the authorities so that they are always the victors. But in the rest of the world minorities have subdivided into further minorities who detest each other so much that they would like to wipe each other out. We remember the contest between the Catholic IRA and the Protestant British armed forces where both sides surpassed each other in brutality until they reached a weary stalemate. Now there is a Real IRA which would like to resume hostilities. In Syria the Assad regime, backed by Shia Iran and Hezbollah, its Shia allies from Lebanon, are fighting rebels backed by Sunni Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and their allies the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Jabhat al Nusra and the Al Qaeda. Trouble is that Saudi Arabia ruthlessly suppresses any hint of revolt inside its borders while supporting the Al Qaeda in other countries. To compound the confusion different groups have different agendas and are now killing each other to gain ascendancy.  At the insistence of western powers the UN sent a special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi to bring love and harmony to Syria. Yesterday Mr Brahimi apologised to the people of Syria for having failed. You have to feel sorry for him. With so many minorities hating each other with fervent intensity what chance did he have? Predictably France and Britain have blamed Assad and are itching to join the fun as they did in Libya when they killed a minority of 30,000 Libyans to get rid of Gaddafi. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron is an upper class sissy, who desperately wants to be Margaret Thatcher and would like people to forget that it was his cuts in flood defenses that have exacerbated the current floods in England and Wales, while French President, Francois Hollande has 4 children with Segolene Royal, whom he never married, was elected kissing Valeire Trierweiler and was photographed visiting actress Julie Gayet, hiding under a helmet on the back of a motorbike. Also there are riots between minorities in the Central African Republic in which hundreds have died in revenge killings. Then there are even smaller minorities, such as the Al Shabab which bombed a shopping mall in Kenya. And the Lord's Resistance Army which is spreading the word in the forests of east Africa. So many minorities. No wonder they cannot understand each other.