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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Comment: Iranian maniac-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can still avoid a war--and help to reelect Obama--by simply pretending to engage the United States. Phony diplomacy worked for Iran's partner in proliferation, North Korea, and it could work for Ahmadinejad.
But the chances of that happening are slim at best. Ahmadinejad is no North Korean Dear Leader; nor, when it comes to playing appeasers like a violin, is the Iranian leader another Nazi Fuhrer, who lied about his true intentions right up until the outbreak of the Second World War in order to buy time for Germany to be able to fight the conflict on Germany's terms. Unlike the original Hitler, who insisted that Germany would be satisfied with limited territorial concessions, the new Hitler, incredibly, broadcasts his intentions: wiping out Israel and driving the U.S. from the Middle East ... before actually destroying "the Great Satan."
More comment: It is possible that Obama plans to undercut his Republican critics by launching surgical strikes against Iran's nuclear sites. A limited assault, however, could be worse than no assault, as it would leave Iran's formidable retaliatory capabilities intact, allowing it and its proxy, Hezbollah, and ally, Syria, to bombard Israel's population centers with missiles. Israel would of course react sharply to such destruction; and Washington, in the interest of preventing Israel from drawing on its presumed nuclear arsenal, would probably come to Israel's aid by hammering Iran with waves of aerial attacks on Iranian military bases, missile installations, etc. Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria would ultimately lose the war; but the cost to Israel in casualties and a shattered economy could be horrendous, making the country more vulnerable than ever to U.S. pressure. A successful but botched victory over Iran could ironically provide Obama with the political cover and the conditions to force Israel to withdraw to indefensible borders and agree to the creation of a contiguous--and irredentist--Palestinian state comprised of Hamas-run Gaza, the disputed West Bank territories, including East Jerusalem, and a land corridor connecting Gaza and the West Bank areas. The new state, which would be dominated by Hamas, would immediately focus on overthrowing the Jordanian monarchy and, with the help of restive Israeli Arabs, conquering the weakened and shrunken--and partially dismembered--Jewish State in order to rule over all of historic Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River.
In the meantime, the U.S. President responsible for killing Osama Bin Laden and ending the Iranian nuclear threat would be free to step up his support for political and overlapping organized and state Islam in line with his odious view that Islam's Arc and Sword are on "the right side of history."
Obama of "the Muslim World" ... "Liberator" of Cairo, Tripoli, Tehran, Damascus ... and ... Jerusalem.
It could happen.
POSTSCRIPT: Don't assume that an Obama-style liberation of Iran would mean real revolution there--i.e. the crushing of clerical fascism. On the contrary; the Obama administration would almost certainly support the emergence of a Turkish-style, "moderate" Islamist Iranian regime over any secular alternative. The administration and its European--and Saudi and Qatari--allies are all pro-Islamist. They mistakenly regard rightwing political Islam as an unstoppable and, except for Al Qaeda and the present Iranian regime, pliable force, a movement ripe for manipulation and exploitation.
In other words, 9/11 changed everything--and nothing.
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Jordan's King Abdullah, an American stooge in charge of a British colonial creation that is mainly populated by Palestinian Arabs, has become the first Arab leader to publicly call for the resignation of the embattled Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad. Click here for the story.
The backstory: the Obama administration and its European allies are determined to replace the secular Syrian regime, an ally of nuclear-arming, Shiite Islamist Iran, with a Sunni Islamist--i.e. Muslim Brotherhood--regime allied with Turkey. Abdullah is merely doing Obama's bidding.
Ironically, Abdullah's father, King Hussein, secretly supported the Muslim Brotherhood against Assad's father. The covert intervention (which Israel and the United States also aided) culminated in a failed Islamist insurrection, centered in the Syrian city of Hama, in 1982, in which at least 25,000 civilians were killed by Syrian troops. Hama is one of the main areas of the current, U.S.-backed, Islamist-orchestrated uprising.
So the dance with the Islamist devil continues; and the deadly game that is being played out could prove catastrophic ... for Israel. Assad and his Iranian and Lebanese (Hezbollah) allies have repeatedly threatened to destroy Tel Aviv--and Israel's Negev nuclear reactor--if foreign powers attack Syria.
Which may be just what Obama/NATO has in mind: a final ... imposed ... solution to the Middle East/Muslim/Palestinian/Arab-Israeli problem.
Related: Turkey Hardens Anti-Assad Stance
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