The Middle East is on fire, and the Sykes-Picot map demarcating boundary-lines of that region’s nation-states since 1920 is going up in smoke. An Islamic State caliphate now stands astride the former international frontier between Iraq and Syria and jihadis are drawing new borders in blood. Those starry-eyed effusions of democratic optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring have long since been supplanted by despair over the vicious sectarian war engulfing the Levant, Mesopotamia and the Maghreb.