What do ISIS, al Qaeda, the Taliban, AQAP, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, etc. and on and on, all have in common? They all get their core philosophy from the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, who have been aggressively exporting their violent, intolerant brand of Sunni 5th-century zealotry via Saudi charities since the 1980s and are responsible -- brazenly so -- for setting the world aflame with Sunni fanaticism. It was, for example, the Wahhabis who built the madrassas (strictly scripture schools) in Pakistans festering Afghan refugee camps that produced the Taliban (the students). So, if we are to embroil ourselves into this broadening war on behalf of the Shiites against Sunni fanaticism, then why merely launch airstrikes at ISIS in northern Iraq? Why merely attack the tentacles when you can just as easily attack the heart-and-wallet -- Jedda, Ridyah, Kuwait? That will never happen, of course. It is, after all, all about oil. So, I say, let Iran send in the Revolutionary Guard into Iraq and get the long-awaited showdown with Saudi Arabia started. This proxy war has been brewing for decades and is the real battle in Syria. So, unless we attack Saudi Arabia (and Kuwait), attacking ISIS is meaningless. (P.S.) One good thing ISIS has done has forced the mainstream electronic media to elevate its discussion of unfolding events and specify, finally, that there are people called Sunnis and people called Shiites and so on … because they can no longer get away with blathering such over-generalized, meaningless, cartoonish terms as Terrorists for every and any warring group. foreignpolicy/articles/2014/06/12/iraq_mosul_isis_sunni_shiite_divide_iran_saudi_arabia_syria
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:33:02 +0000
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