In my old Guard unit, they met him once. Pretty good guy.
That said, if he gets overthrown and some crazies take over, then Israel needs to follow their God-given mandate and take their homeland and drive all the non-Jewish infidels out.
Posted on 07/20/2019 9:38:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
As these lines are written, Jordanian rebels are marching towards the king's palace in downtown Amman. These protests have been regular since February and aren't major...yet.
Nonetheless, the protesters, and the public in general, are unprecedently angry with the king. Calling him by name, they chant obscenities against him and his family, not to mention scream the word "Irhal," which means "step down" in Arabic. Meanwhile, the country has been engulfed in unrest and violence. Jordanian are hungry and angry, and the king is out of touch.
The status quo was described best by a former senior Jordanian diplomat and writer, Fouad Batinah. Writing for a London-based newspaper, Ray Aloyoum, he said:
Jordan is in transition to a new state[.] ... The existence of the king is just technical[.] ... The king has no power nor the ability to make decisions, and actually lives in a state of disengagement from the people[.] ... Both, the absence of the king on long leave or his stay in Jordan, are the same; he makes no difference and does not affect the course of events[.] ... The regime has dissolved its alliance with the tribes and all the East Jordanians. Today, the tribes are disintegrated and without weight, you [the tribes] are oppressed, while your Palestinian brethren are enduring a state of ongoing injustice by the Arabs even more than the non-Arabs[.]
With this testimony from one of the king's inner circle staring us in the face, it is safe to say the king is dancing at the end of his rope, trying to do anything he can to stay in power.
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Their circus.
Their blood, not one more drop of OURS!
Teheran 1979 redux. The king is bad, but his replacement will be much worse.
Jordan is a sovereign nation and if we demand respect for our sovereignty as a nation, we must do so with others no matter how much we disagree with them, unless they present an imminent threat to America and some legitimate, critical interest of America.
What America can and should do is what Reagan did - help the freedom fighters of the country in any way we can. But short of invading the country which we have no right to do, mindless, convoluted, and unjust “Bush Doctrine” notwithstanding.
The smart thing to do of course is use precision intelligence and stealth to help the freedom fighters in Jordan.
If ‘Palestinians’ deserve a state, certainly the ‘Jordanians’ should be allowed to remove the the family from Mecca that the Brits installed in Amman!
In my old Guard unit, they met him once. Pretty good guy.
That said, if he gets overthrown and some crazies take over, then Israel needs to follow their God-given mandate and take their homeland and drive all the non-Jewish infidels out.
The difference US was neck-deep in Iran and practically owns the mess. Here you have a great opportunity to stay aside.
“help the freedom fighters of the country in any way we can.”
Except King Abdullah is the freedom fighter. All his opponents are Islamists who in general, advocate Islamist and anti-Western policies.
Mind our own damn business.
The war is here.
Exactly.
Not our circus, not our monkeys.
But, as others have said, Abdullah II, in the grand scheme of things, is a far more reasonable, moderate leader than almost any other Arab head of state out there, and CERTAINLY better than pretty much anything or anyone, who is likely to replace him.
Acutally, Israel’s borders are from “the river of Egypt”, which is not the Nile, but a wadi on the border of Sinai which marked the traditional Egyptian border; to the Tigris-Eurphates, in the north.
It is a north-south designation, not an east-west one.
Ban immigration from Muslim majority countries. You can’t fix the Muslim world, and you will go broke trying. So simply keep them out of the USA.
The “freedom fighters” in these Islamic sh!t-holes are invariably radical Muslims. Just one more reason why we should stay the hell out of there.
Exactly.
We should surreptitiously help him as we should have helped the Shah of Iran who was overthrown while America’ leaders were sleeping.
That’s one take on it. Another point is some protestors who wants their king out is a matter to be resolved between the king, protestors and king’s supporters if there are any. Some people evidently disappointed with the king that’s for sure r there wouldn’t be any protest.
There is an ongoing paralysis of a power structure in US based on the ridiculous idea that 13 Russian trolls violated US sovereignty to the point that the whole system allegedly compromised.
Yet, the very same people think US should get involved in who Jordanian have as a king.
In this case, the freedom fighters are those on the king’s side, right?
We either do smartly and intelligently what we can to protect this king now, or deal with the consequences later.
“Smart and intelligent.” Short of Trump, don’t see much of that in D.C.
This king is half British and sends his children to school in the U.S. I suspect he’s been preparing to get the hell out of there for years.
The king always has an option to board his Gulfstream and dash towards US or better UK. You know kings don’t feel good among citizens, they prefer subjects around.
Jordan is not the ally the U.S. wants, and they are not an enemy that needs to be overthrown. The last thing the region needs is another country to turn into a second Syria.
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