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UPDATED WITH ARTICLE BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
- An inconvenient truth in Middle East politics is that only strong regimes - no matter how ruthless - can keep the masses of Shiite and Sunni factions from slaughtering each other and under relative control.
- The best we can hope for in that part of the world is a secular, authoritarian regime. The more religious their rulers are, the greater their inclination to prepare for all out war. Iran is one of the best examples of religious fanaticism.
- Unfortunately the Obama administration decided to topple several secular tyrants in order to install religious fanatics, particularly from the Muslim Brotherhood. This Arab Spring regime-change unleashed civil wars and all kinds of extreme abuses of human rights. Hundreds of thousands have died and the carnage continues, spilling over into Europe and the USA.
- Syria's Assad is the last surviving secular tyrant, thanks to help from Russia and Iran. Political forces in the USA continue to push for his removal, knowing full well that the country would fall into chaos and be taken over by much worse extremists - after the "rebel" factions fight each other for supremacy. And let's not forget that Iran and Russia are already there!
- A parallel situation of American self-delusion exists with the decades-old obsession to create a Palestinian State. We have all seen the gruesome violence and widespread corruption among Palestinians. How can anyone even suggest that they are ready for statehood and for living side by side and in peace with Israel, as the fraudulent land-for-peace slogan says?
- The truly biggest problems are now a nuclear Iran, and how Arab countries like Saudi Arabia will try to match that country's nuclear capabilities. In a region plagued by anger management issues, Obama's facilitating Iran's nuclearization was a recipe for disaster. SEE RELATED ARTICLE ON OBAMA AND SYRIA BELOW.
- The following analysis by Tucker Carlson is brilliant. In only seven minutes he clears up the Washington fog of confusion regarding Syria and US military involvement in that area.
VIDEO - TUCKER CARLSON: WOULD WAR WITH SYRIA MAKE US SAFER?
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By Daniel Greenfield
Obama owns the disaster in Syria in a way that no one else does. Three of his policies intersected to cause the bloodshed, devastation and horrors there.
- The Iraq Withdrawal
- The Arab Spring
- The Iran Deal
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