Posted on 12/15/2015 11:35:15 AM PST by amorphous
While it's still far from common knowledge among the Western public that Washington's closest allies in the Mid-East are funding, arming, and otherwise enabling the Sunni extremists (including ISIS) battling for control of Syria and working to destabilize Iraq, the massacre that unfolded earlier this month in San Bernardino has managed to focus some much needed attention on the role Saudi Arabia plays in promoting extremism.
As we noted in the immediate aftermath of the California mass shooting, the fact that Tashfeen Malik spent 25 years in Saudi Arabia living with a father who, according to family members who spoke to Reuters, adopted an increasingly hardline ideology as time went on, underscores the fact that the puritanical, ultra orthodox belief system promoted by the Saudis is poisonous. That's not a critique of Islam. It's a critique of Wahhabism and the effect it has on the minds of those who are inculcated by Saudi culture.
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I’m interested in when the USA will start bombing the real terrorists in Saudi Arabia!
Saudi Arabia has offered to build a bunch of new mosques in Europe isn’t that enough?/s
Putin would offer to defend Saudi Arabia in a New York minute ...
Let Saudi Arabia see what kind of alliance THEY can put together to take on Russia. We’ll stand down this time.
when their credit cards are declined on Rodeo Drive?
Then he could take over their oil.
Great. From the Country that brought you the 9/11 attacks...
Nuking Mecca would be a good start. Sort of complicates the Five Pillars of Islam:
5. Hajj or Pilgrimage to Mecca
Great! Listening now.
Yup, I’m wondering how Russia is going to take this “Invasion of Syria and Iraq”. It’s why I suggested it’s another step toward a world war.
-— Putin would offer to defend Saudi Arabia in a New York minute ... -—
Dunno. He would love to see the price of oil rise.
Saudi sissy boys would never fight a ground campaign . All those Gulf Arabs too , and Kuwaitis ; couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag . Maybe ok flying jets overhead at 20,00 ft , but fighting it out street to street ? No way .
All they can do is pay money behind the scenes and get other people to do their fighting . Maybe Iran will use Saudi as the test zone for their new nukes .
A briefing on Syria:
President Assad (who is bad) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the Rebels (who are good) started winning.
But then some of the rebels turned a bit nasty and are now called Islamic State (who are definitely bad) and some continued to support democracy (who are still good).
So the Americans (who are good) started bombing Islamic State (who are bad) and giving arms to the Syrian Rebels (who are good) so they could fight Assad (who is still bad) which was good.
By the way, there is a breakaway state in the north run by the Kurds who want to fight IS (which is a good thing) but the Turkish authorities think they are bad, so we have to say they are bad whilst secretly thinking they’re good and giving them guns to fight IS (which is good) but that is another matter.
Getting back to Syria. President Putin (bad, as he invaded Crimea and the Ukraine and killed lots of folks including that nice Russian man in London with polonium) has decided to back Assad (who is still bad) by attacking IS (who are also bad) which is sort of a good thing?
But Putin (still bad) thinks the Syrian Rebels (who are good) are also bad, and so he bombs them too, much to the annoyance of the Americans (who are good) who are busy backing and arming the rebels (who are also good).
Now Iran (who used to be bad, but now they have agreed not to build any nuclear weapons and bomb Israel are now good) are going to provide ground troops to support Assad (still bad) as are the Russians (bad) who now have ground troops and aircraft in Syria.
So a Coalition of Assad (still bad) Putin (extra bad) and the Iranians (good, but in a bad sort of way) are going to attack IS (who are bad) which is a good thing, but also the Syrian Rebels (who are good) which is bad.
Now the British (obviously good, except Corbyn who is probably bad) and the Americans (also good) cannot attack Assad (still bad) for fear of upsetting Putin (bad) and Iran (good / bad) and now they have to accept that Assad might not be that bad after all compared to IS (who are super bad).
So Assad (bad) is now probably good, being better than IS (no real choice there) and since Putin and Iran are also fighting IS that may now make them good. America (still good) will find it hard to arm a group of rebels being attacked by the Russians for fear of upsetting Mr Putin (now good) and that mad ayatollah in Iran (also good) and so they may be forced to say that the Rebels are now bad, or at the very least abandon them to their fate. This will lead most of them to flee to Turkey and on to Europe or join IS (still the only constantly bad group).
To Sunni Muslims, an attack by Shia Muslims (Assad and Iran) backed by Russians will be seen as something of a Holy War, and the ranks of IS will now be seen by the Sunnis as the only Jihadis fighting in the Holy War and hence many Muslims will now see IS as good (doh!).
Sunni Muslims will also see the lack of action by Britain and America in support of their Sunni rebel brothers as something of a betrayal (might have a point) and hence we will be seen as bad.
So now we have America (now bad) and Britain (also bad) providing limited support to Sunni Rebels (bad) many of whom are looking to IS (good / bad) for support against Assad (now good) who, along with Iran (also good) and Putin (also, now, unbelievably, good ) are attempting to retake the country Assad used to run before all this started?
I hope that this clears it all up for you.
-— Maybe Iran will use Saudi as the test zone for their new nukes .-—
They would threaten them into submission. They wouldn’t want to clean up the mess.
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Amazingly, ALL true!
Thanks, passing it on to others having a hard time understanding what's going on in the ME... :-)
That is why the force against terrorism is coming together. As usual, it means the exact opposite of what the government says it is.
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