“They know that the West will not respond.”
The “Arab Spring” began in Tunisia in 2010, and raced through Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria, and other countries with large or predominantly Muslim populations whether Arab or not. The movement was later renamed the “Arab Awakening,” but changing the name didn’t change its Sunni Islamic character.
The common thread throughout these rolling revolutions that cut such a broad swath of the Muslim world was the dramatic shift from largely secular autocracies to Islamist-dominated governments. Uprisings that began naïvely as movements to promote democratic government, devolved into bloody and chaotic wars, spanning the region from West Africa to Malaysia. In many cases they installed new Islamist leaders governing under strict Shari’ah law.
Deeply imbedded and often covert in these conflicts is Shi’ah Iran and its proxies such as Hezbollah, hell-bent to generate chaos; presumably the chaos Shi’ah Muslims believe will precede the coming of the 12th Imam. On the other side are scores of Sunni groups, fighting the Shi’ah in Iraq, Assad in Syria, and each other wherever they can.
h/t Frank M.
How long til many of these refugees from all these conflicts begin resettling in the West? Dearbornistan was just the beginning folks.
What was it George Jonas said? Keep supporting the underdog.
“Exporting freedom and democracy” has been central to official US foreign policy rhetoric dating back more than half a century, espoused by Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Claiming that this is “all Obama’s fault” ignores the historical record, displays the same intellectually laziness as those claiming that this is “all Bush’s fault”, and suggests that your presiding interest is less the security of the US and her allies and more the scoring of cheap political points.
By the way, Illana Freedman and Jerry Gordon? Mocking “experts” in one blog post and then cheering on the same from amongst your own ideological echo chamber in the next is just silly.
suggests that your presiding interest is less the security of the US and her allies and more the scoring of cheap political points.
Which allies would you be referring to?
Britain? Let’s return Churchill’s bust and give the Queen a DVD with Obama speeches.
Germany? Let’s bug Merkel’s phone.
Canada? Let’s block Keystone to score points with our radical base.
Poland? Let’s forget about the missile shield to stay friendly with Putin.
Israel? The list is too long to enumerate.
You must be referring to allies like the Muslin Brotherhood.
No…. it’s Obama.
Claiming that this is “all Obama’s fault”
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Barack Obama’s Middle East speech – Thursday 19 May 2011
• Obama pays tribute to the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings
• Assad told to accept reform “or get out of the way”
• Bahrain’s “mass arrests and brute force” criticized
• Israel-Palestine peace should be based on 1967 borders
History is really a bitch..
Meanwhile the only truly democratic country in the ME fights off the nutbars who fire rockets into Israel. The leaders of Israel know full well now that they cannot count on the USA to back them up. As tough as their struggle has always been the idea that USA air power could be counted on was there. Not anymore. Who in their right mind would count on someone like Obama to even put the dog out for a pee.
The current situation is very unstable with the chance of escalation very possible.
The terms “Arab Spring” and “Arab Awakening” are essentially Western confections.
Every day now I feel that I’m seeing one more small piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is Biblical end times prophecy fit into place.
It can be difficult to decide whether the current POTUS is even more incompetent than Carter was, or is everything going to Saul Alinsky’s plan of destroying the US, and or, is the Caliphate’s Manchurian candidate in place.
A FoxNews report yesterday said that thousands of junior officers have been given a pink slip. No details beyond this, but this would seriously bruise the future top military leadership.
Very comprehensive article on the muslim group ISIS and its impact on us. They have jihad fighters from the Netherlands, Canada, the US, the UK and are a powerful, wealthy group who have just captured chemical weapons and other WMD in Iraq. Israel is our only front line defence against these muslim factions and we have to support it for our own security.
Last Thursday a few Jews were protesting in front of palestinian house in Toronto about the kidnapping of the 3 teenagers and 200 muslims showed up and beat them with flags poles will the police did nothing as usual. The government program of shutting down any criticism of islam with racist or islamophobic charges is working really well
Hey no worries Ken…the “Obama-Nation(tm)” has now sent out draft notices for those born 1893-1897; sure to be called the “Geriatric Division”.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/11/were-really-sorry-us-sends-14000-draft-notices-to-men-born-in-1800s/?intcmp=trending
The U.S. Just Sent Thousands of Draft Notices to Men Born from ’93 to ’97—1893 to 1897
‘The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last week.
Chuck Huey, 73, of Kingston, said he got a notice addressed to his late grandfather Bert Huey, a World War I veteran who was born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100.’
Good thing its the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI…but I would surmise that most those young lads are polishing their halos.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“ISIS’ reputation for unspeakable brutality keeps their victims in line. ”
And we are led by men who court martial a soldier who slaps the face of a terrorist prisoner.
i don’t see how we can win with leaders like we have.The West needs leaders as smart and ruthless as the fellow leading ISIS, but,alas, all we have are negotiators.
I still gag when I hear the term,”Arab Spring”, the concoction of delusional Western politicians,pundits,and academics.
“Smart and ruthless” doesn’t get you elected in our enlightened democracy, mendacious and mealy-mouthed does. The idea that we have to “respect” an obvious blood-thirsty barbarism is also to blame.
“Let the Sunni and the Shia fight. Contain. Then shoot the winners.”
Go ahead, try and get elected on that.
The long term solution is to Sterilize (stealth) those in the festering Clusters = Extinction in a generation.
The short term solution is to use the Max Force that will kill Max numbers & Sterilizes those that survive = Nuclear option.
Now now….that is non PC.
I prefer the more generous option….if Iran wants a nuclear weapon…give them one…or two….
Of course the usual suspects Fwance, the EU (Van Romey) and Putin will make the pro-forma protests.
All 56 remaining Muslim governments will forward notes of protest….extremely polite and VERY carefully worded notes of protest……
Well, Obama was going to halt the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. Shouldn’t be surprised when he tries to raise the dead.