Friday, March 27, 2015

Chickens coming home to roost

"Just how badly has Barack Obama and his administration damaged relations with our allies in the Middle East? NBC’s Richard Engel reports that the Sunni nations in the region have begun to fear that the Obama administration leaks intel to Iran as part of its efforts at rapprochement with the mullahs, which is why the US got blindsided by the Saudi-led coalition’s operations in Yemen. The White House’s “incoherence” in policy, Engel reports, has most of them losing confidence in American leadership, according to Engel’s contacts (via Free Beacon)."

This is unprecedented, and shows just how badly our relations with our allies in the middle east have deteriorated.  This is a very public vote of no confidence that all our enemies and friends will see.  At least these countries are willing and perhaps even able to do the fighting, so we don't have to, but even if this action is successful, we lose significant influence with regional players who are centrally important to the world economy.

If they screw it up and lose, then it will be all out panic time.  No doubt the Saudis are calling in their chips with the Pakistanis as we speak for their share of that country's nuclear arsenal ( the Saudis bankrolled the Paki's development of the bomb, with the understanding that they would get some of the nukes later if they needed them).


 "Clearly, Saudi Arabia has little confidence left in the Obama administration; that much is evident from their actions to cut the US out of the loop on this coalition. Engel’s report strongly suggests that it’s not just incompetence that has the Saudis and other US allies rattled, but a suspicion that they’re being purposefully sold out by Obama to get a deal with Iran that will unleash their ambitions to dominate the region."
It is frankly hard to believe this is simple incompetence.  Obama is setting the world on fire, and the flames he is stoking are bidding fair to be nuclear ones.  The first time one goes off in our country must be grounds for the arrest of Obama, and his cabinet, and an immediate trial for treason.

6 comments:

  1. Nobody trusts Obama...nobody.

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  2. If a bomb goes off in the US, we then start rounding up the progs that were in power at the time .. Start with Ebama and work our way down to the littlest liberal........

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  4. Who bombed the WTC, twice? Sunni Muslims
    Who were we fighting in Afghanistan? Sunni Muslims
    Who were we fighting in Iraq? Sunni Muslims
    Who makes up ISIS? Sunni Muslims

    Yet it is Iran who is a major threat? Hardly. This is just more AIPAC propaganda that you "patriots" are falling for hook, line and sinker. Tel Aviv wants Iran taken out and the Israel Firsters in the US are dancing like puppets on a string.

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    1. Chris Mallory - I don't think that there is any love lost for either faction on this blog.

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    2. They are both, in reality, hostile to us, with "us" being Western Civilization. The Iranian government has killed plenty of Americans, and swears publicly and loudly that they will kill as many more as they can. Too bad Obama missed his chance to change the regime there back in 08 or 09, as most of the actual Iranian people, tired of theocratic rule, would likely be happy to rejoin the Western world.
      At the very least, they are now fighting each other without demanding that we do their fighting for them. It's escalating nicely, and the Sunnis and Shiites are much more likely to use their nukes against each other, than us, at least at first.

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