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2015-10-13
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The West - especially the United States - no longer has a strategy for the Middle East. It has tried detente with Iran over the nuclear issue, and it has to a large extent succeeded. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
there is no evidence yet that this will dent Iran's opposition to U.S. interests in the region, or that it will stop funding terrorist organizations that carry out attacks against U.S. interests and allies.

U.S. relations with the Saudis have chilled, and relations with Israel are at an all-time low - for perfectly good reasons, since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has killed off the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians.
Considering the condition of the peace process, I'd consider it a mercy-killing.
The United States is in unilateral retreat across the Middle East, and the rest of the West has duly followed. Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti...
Netanyahu raises the spectre of war with Iran. All previous rules of the game in the Middle East have been discarded, Russia and Iran have been left in the ascendency, and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) still ravages large swathes of the fertile crescent.

It is impossible to know what shape things will take when, indeed if, the dust settles. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
what is painfully clear is that the West cannot hope to just wash its hands of any responsibility over what happens in the region. The millions of Syrians and others who will continue to flee to Europe will make sure of that.

Perhaps one day the West will decide it is not impotent and can yet make a positive contribution to peace in the Middle East. For now, however, there is no evidence that it has any idea how to go about that.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Again, US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER-SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER USoAMERIKA IS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY HELPING ITS ENEMIES, PROTAGONISTS, + WANNABES, NATIONS + NGOS, ETAL. BECOME MILPOL OR GEOPOL STRONGER RELATIVE TO ITSELF.

POTUS Obama + OWG Globalists are NOT stopping RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? from expanding their Sphere(s) of Influence to the detriment of US Regional Allies - THEY WANT RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? tO EXPAND THEIR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE TO THE DETRIMENT OF US REGIONAL ALLIES.

THE MORE ANARCHIES-N-CHAOSES, THE BETTER FOR OWG-NWO + US-GLOBAL/WORLD MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST-GLOBALIST ORDER.

* Lest we fergit, 1990 CLINTONISM > E.G. GOP-RIGHT = LIMITED OR "NEW" DEMOLEFT, FASCISM = LIMITED COMMUNISM, ... ...@ETC = POST-COLD WAR, POST-9-11, YEAR 2015-N-COUNTING GOP-DEM "UNITARIANISM/UNITARIAN SOCIALISM-GOVTISM" IN WASHINGTON.

But I digress ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-13 21:14  

#1  Nation building starts at home.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-13 02:32  

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