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2015-03-28 Arabia

Experts: Saudi Ground Troops Would Face Yemen 'Quagmire'

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Of course ther may not be held to the same bullshit ROE as we are.

Posted by chris 2015-03-28 00:53|| 2015-03-28 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 "... Up the escalatory ladder toward Iran" > Yuup.

A Conventional andor [Limited] Nuclear Confrontation between US BFFS, i.e. long-time Ally KSA versus New Quasi-Ally Rising Iran, + ANTI-US US GLOBALIST OBAMA + ALIGNED is mix or recipe for unheralded US Foreign Policy + Geopol disaster iff there ever was one.

IMO the Bammer will likely continue wid his traditional, so-called "MINIMALIST" APPROACH vee any Saudi-Iran military confrontation + ultimately War. The KSA-GCC, etal. + Iran will be the ones to take the lead in resolving their common regional issues WHERE THE US WILL LIKELY BE HARSHLY OR SEVERELY CRITICIZED FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO SUPPORT EITHER BFF = REGIONAL ALLY.

FYO any possible Saudi-Iran MilPol struggle + mil conflict will be a long one.

IMO again SAUDI-VS-IRAN = CHINA-VS-JAPAN = "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" ALL-AROUND, UNCHALLENGED #1 AS PER FUTURE ISLAMIC/MIDDLE EAST = EAST ASIA/ASIA OWG GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION(S).

CAROLINE KENNEDY = may receive high US-World kudos for seemingly PCorrectly "PREVENTING" - IMO read more accurately, "DELAYING" - ANY CHINA-JAPAN WAR AT THE MOMENT, BUT ULTIMATELY TO N-O-T STOP ONE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-28 01:19|| 2015-03-28 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 If you drain the swamp. There's no place for the fish to swim. Good fish or bad fish.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-28 10:05|| 2015-03-28 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course ther may not be held to the same bullshit ROE as we are.

Iraqis don't have the same ROE's, but they're still struggling with ISIS. Saudi ROE's are limited by the possibility of direct Iranian intervention and/or attacks on Saudi Arabia and the fact that wiping out the Houthis could lead to al Qaeda/ISIL becoming Yemen's government.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2015-03-28 12:13|| 2015-03-28 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ...or, wait for it, you become a neo-colonial power. Remember its OK when its not white people doing it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-28 12:39|| 2015-03-28 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 ...or, wait for it, you become a neo-colonial power. Remember its OK when its not white people doing it.

No good reason for it in the modern era, in a literal wasteland (i.e. unproductive desert) like Yemen. Even when resistance was minimal, it only ever made marginal economic sense. When wars of national resistance broke out, supported by significant chunks of the population, Europe left. And European GDP per capita increased after decolonization whereas those in the former colonies (even in countries with fertile land and abundant mineral resources in Africa) were either stagnant or slow-growing. No way the Saudis want to share their natural resource bounty with the Yemenis.

Even in antiquity, tax farming fishermen and pearl divers was a marginal source of revenue. And that was when armies of occupation needed only simple weaponry, food and water.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2015-03-28 14:00|| 2015-03-28 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Location, location, location - 1926 Chicago Tribune real estate classified ad.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-28 14:28|| 2015-03-28 14:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Instant quagmire, just add water. That's been true of that whole part of the world for many centuries now.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-28 14:53|| 2015-03-28 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Instant quagmire, just add ~~water~~ blood.

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-28 18:27|| 2015-03-28 18:27|| Front Page Top

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