[TheRealThing]

Ancient Mesoptamia is interesting and relevant, given the chaos in Iraq and Syria, and still simmering unrest in Egypt. However, an Iran with a nuclear arsenal still looms as perhaps THE game changer in the region, and I don't see, in the long run of twenty, thirty, fifty years (no matter the negotiations) that much can be done to stop it.

A nuclear Iran fits into the prophetic picture without stretching credibility if you ask me. Zechariah 14:12 (KJV)
12 "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth."

I don't know, maybe there will be a sickness that will eat people up before they even have time to fall over, and maybe not. Still, such a scenario would come to pass for any who were in a nuclear blast zone.

But no. Nothing can be done to stop it and that's the point. Short of total annihilation the feud between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac will never end. And at this point let us get real, That feud is the source of the contempt and hatred of the Arab World, apart from the realization of that reality there is no plausible explanation for why a terrorist would blow himself into tiny bits at the airport in Istanbul, or kill 50 at a gay bar in Orlando. That is why God will step in and end things Himself in order to save man from himself.