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| Saudi Arabia Wants to Fight Iran to the Last American |
| 2017-11-20 |
| [NationalInterest.org] Riyadh’s aim is to drag the United States back into the Middle East, tilting the balance back to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Many observers have connected the dots and concluded that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is seeking to drag the United States into a war with Iran and Hezbollah. But that’s only half the story. Looking at the recent events through a broader geopolitical lens, a much more sinister plan emerges: a Saudi plan to trap the United States in a permanent standoff with Tehran. While most of the world has been aghast by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s radical actions of this past week, his conduct is only inexplicable when viewed from the wrong lens, such as the Sunni-Shia sectarian frame or the even more absurd attempt to cast this conflict as part of a greater fight against terrorism. After all, Saudi Arabia provided the seed money for Al Qaeda and openly funded and armed Al Qaeda in Syria (Jabhat al-Nusra), according to the U.S. government. When seen from a geopolitical lens, however, the unlikely alliance between Zionist Israel and the Wahhabi House of Saud, their opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and their coordinated effort to ratchet up tensions in the region suddenly acquire a degree of logic. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 While most of the world has been aghast by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s radical actions of this past week, his conduct is only inexplicable when viewed from the wrong lens, such as the Sunni-Shia sectarian frame or the even more absurd attempt to cast this conflict as part of a greater fight against terrorism. After all, Saudi Arabia provided the seed money for Al Qaeda and openly funded and armed Al Qaeda in Syria (Jabhat al-Nusra), according to the U.S. government. But the correct answer according to the article is to trap the U.S. in a permanent standoff with Tehran. We have been in a somewhat permanent standoff with Iran since 1979. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-20 13:35 |
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| Posted by: Menhadden Shaling4686 2017-11-20 09:19 |
| #3 Israeli plan is to make Iran disappear? Not as unlikely as it may sound. Persians are a minority in Iran. Remove the Azeri, Kurdish, Baluch and Arab areas, and that's half the country gone. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-11-20 05:18 |
| #2 Similar to North Korea, Iran is simply more unfinished business, primarily from the Carter years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-20 03:49 |
| #1 Saudi plan to trap the United States in a permanent standoff with Tehran Israeli plan is to make Iran disappear? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-20 03:47 |