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2015-03-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Yemen is just part of Iran's Mideast master plan

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-29 02:34|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ...Those of us who go as far back as the Iranian Revolution remember that these people play a long game, whereas we can't remember anything past Miley Cyrus' last tweet.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-03-29 07:37|| 2015-03-29 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 So true Mike.

My question is that since Shia are outnumbered 4-1 or so, do they really think they can dominate the Muzzie world?

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-29 07:57|| 2015-03-29 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They have plans to even the odds...

Posted by Steve White 2015-03-29 09:22|| 2015-03-29 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Play the 'long game'? We don't even comprehend the word "plan".

Posted by Bobby 2015-03-29 09:24|| 2015-03-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 My question is that since Shia are outnumbered 4-1 or so, do they really think they can dominate the Muzzie world?

That's what the 12th Imam promised.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-29 10:06|| 2015-03-29 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Who's Miley Cyrus? Sounds Persian.

Snark of the day.

Posted by Zorba Glomp5351 2015-03-29 10:13|| 2015-03-29 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Hubris seems to be a characteristic of megalomania.

Reminds me of the, possibly apocryphal, words of Yamamoto about Pearl Harbor. "I'll run free in the pacific for 6 months, then what?"

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-29 10:20|| 2015-03-29 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Which in turn is part of the larger or broader,
Supra/Post-Nationalist OWG Globalist plan to unilaterally forcibly reorganize the planet, widout need of those silly pesky things called National/Popular Referendums to support or justify US, Multi-Govt actions.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-29 20:56|| 2015-03-29 20:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Shiia outnumber Sunni by more than 4 to 1 in Syria and they had no problem keeping control until recently.

Posted by phil_b 2015-03-29 23:23|| 2015-03-29 23:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Shiia outnumber Sunni by more than 4 to 1 in Syria and they had no problem keeping control until recently.

The best course for long-term Alawite domination would have been a convert or die policy. Since they were surrounded by Sunnis Arab, they had to settle for a water down (Sunni Islam) or die policy under the guise of Arab Nationalism. They crushed the Muslim Brotherhood and went after violent anti-government Sunni Arab movements. I suspect their big mistake was not ensuring that Alawites reproduced themselves.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2015-03-29 23:31|| 2015-03-29 23:31|| Front Page Top

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