这些逊尼派领导人生活在悲惨的恐惧之中，担心巴格达政权的解体所会带来的地缘政治地震。 他们相信，那将会不可避免地引发全面内战，而这一内战将不会尊重国际边界线。
These Sunni leaders live in abject fear of the geopolitical earthquake that any disintegration of political authority in Baghdad would bring, believing that all-out civil war would invariably follow – a war that would not respect international borders.