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“On one side you have the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Russia and also Bashar al-Assad,” West explained. “On the other side, you have freedom fighters. You have al-Qaida and radical Islamists. And also you have the backing of the state of Turkey.”
He pointed to recent experiences with Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood, is now threatening to bring Sharia law to the country, and Libya, which has been plunged into chaos since the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi late last year.
“If you start to interject yourself in a means other than diplomatic whose side are you on? We don’t need to put our military in a situation where they’re caught in a cross-fire,” insisted West.
What say you? Do you think Obama is going to intervene despite the ramifications of an intervention in Syria, Iran's biggest ally?
This big blue rock that we live on is not that small. If the middle east is overtaken by powers that hate us a little more than the groups we are backing it will effect everyone in the USA and Europe.
Sticking our heads in the ground and pretending that we have nothing at stake is can completly short sighted. We are already dependant upon Middle Eastern crude oil as a planet, like it or not it's our reality. So either sceniaro stinks but washing our hands of it is still going to have an impact on our daily lives. I say we go down swinging!!!
Originally posted by pillock
I think the CIA has totally F@#ked up with their Arab spring campaign plot to destabilize the middle east .
It has left a vacuum that is being filed by extremist Muslims.
Originally posted by pillock
I think the CIA has totally F@#ked up with their Arab spring campaign plot to destabilize the middle east .
It has left a vacuum that is being filed by extremist Muslims.
c'mon, really?...allen west? to me anyway, this man is not playing with a full deck. either that, or he refuses to give credence to any other information that might conflict with a very narrow-minded line of thinking.
i have heard this man speak, and he seems more interested in being a provocateur, rather than being a problem-solving member of congress.