[bill1952]

>I think they actually are not going to be foiled into serving another ruler, and will continue to protest and resist

LOLOLOL
They are ISLAMIC Shiites tying to turn this into another country ruled by IMMANS & SHARIA law.

The Shias WANT this - you are the fool here sir.

[Son House]

Me not totally naive to that, but I also wouldn’t discard a real quest for freedom too.

[robowombat]

Yes, and the royal government is showing some stones in pulling down the focal symbol; of the Iranian proxies. I hope that this is a signal of what is to come if the Iranian proxies continue to try and topple the monarchy. The question for the US here as in the rest of wogistan is not about moralizing globalony but who and what serves our interests best. In Libya, we and the rest of the EU dopes and dupes are lining up on the side of an Islamacist controlled revolt. In Libya it is a choice of turds and ColK represents a lot less of a threat to our interests than Islamacists. In Bahrain the torpidly corrupt monarchy supports our interest of naval access to control one of the truly critical maritime chokepoints, the Straits of Hormuz, the rioters are dupes, surrogates, or stooges of Iran who is ever trying to dismantle the encirclement that the US has achieved of Iran. It is not a lot of graduation day rhetorical sentimentality or denatured Enlightenment emoting that represents our interests, it is pure concrete national political and military advantage that is at stake.