Posted on 10/07/2015 8:08:59 AM PDT by Lorianne
The Middle East is complicated.
The religious, social and political cleavages of the region are myriad and hard to succinctly sum up. How do you untangle the Israeli-Palestinian situation, or explain the divide between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam, or square those who favor political Islam with those who favor secular government? Where do other religious and political minorities fit in? And where do big powers outside the region, most obviously the United States, exert influence?
Last summer, a reader of the Financial Times tried to make sense of the Middle East with a widely shared letter to the editor:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Putin says, I'll kill those terrorist bastards for everyone as he moves in military assets into Syria. ..propping up Assad.
Syrian Rebels, better know as ISIS, skedattle to Europe.
Obama supports Iran fighting ISIS in Iraq, which it has been at war many times.
Now Obama welcomes the ISIS refugees with open arms.
Liberal propaganda. Liberals love to hide behind ‘complexity’, especially when they caused or facilitated the problem.
Your husband's right. They really don't think like we do...
The problem in a nutshell is that no one power has crushed the others. Until that happens there will be eternal war.
Fine line between complexity and idiocy.
Here’s the key: There are no good guys.
There was a nice balance of evil between Iran and Iraq. Them killing each other was to our benefit and we had relative stability in the region. We took out Iraq and now Iran dominates. Now we are releasing 150 billion to them and they will dominate even more.
Intellectuals and politicians love to turn the simple into the complex.
It isn’t that complicated.
Where you find Islam you find evil and strife.
Note that Russia just launched missiles across Iranian and Iraqi airspace to hit ISIS targets.
Meanwhile, the Kurds, as always, are just trying to protect themselves.
And Obama has his thumb up his a**.
Amen to that.
I have spend some time in the region myself and came to the same conclusion.
Seems pretty simple to me, Muzzie scum acting like Muzzie scum.
Ir is not really that complex.
Shia hates Sunni and vice versa. Iran is Shia and Saudi Arabia is Sunni. They are currently waging proxy wars in Iraq and Syria to see who will be dominate.
Very succinctly said.
I will add that we needn’t be taking sides in this proxy war.
No, Isreal is a good guy. The key is there is no good Islam. Remove Islam from the mix and it all smoothes out.
Take one step back if you want to see the truth. . .violence is a way of life. Anyone who tries to change it becomes embroiled in it.
It’s a given on Israel. It is the only reasonable population in the region.
ISLAMIC STATE (IS, ISIS, ISIL)
They lack much on Syria and its Civil War so I have to send it to about.com
Syrian Civil War Explained I will update this in a follow up post later with more topics.
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