What interests do we have in the Syrian Sunni revolt??
February 14, 2012 11:56 am Islam and the WestDo we imagine that a Sunni dictatorship will be more in our interests than an Alawite one?
- After Egypt’s Revolution resulted in more Christians being abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and their churches burnt,
- After Medecins sans Frontieres stopped medical services in Libya because they were being used to keep Gadhaffi supporters alive for more torture,
- After the 1979 Shiite Revolution in Iran,which toppled the pro-Western Shah and started this mess;
do you really still think regime change in Syria will be good for us? Good for the Syrian people as a whole? Good for the Sunni majority? What about the Alawites? What about the Christians? The marchers chanted “Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut”. Does anything in recent or ancient history make you believe that will not happen once the Sunnis control the country?
This is just another Arab-Islamic power struggle, fought in the usual way by the usual methods. I further predict that Assad will probably win. Every western power should stay out of it.
What is the Syrian uprising all about? That’s an easy one. The Sunni Saudis are financing the Sunnis in Syria to get rid of the governing Alawite clique. The Syrian army is Alawite-led, the Alawites being a minority and an offshoot of Shia Islam. Get it? The Saudis fear Shiite Iran, which is helping Assad. The Sunni-led kleptocracies of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf are posturing and threatening war against Iran’s Shiites and Syria’s Shiite-Alawite regime. It is the game of nations, a fight between Sunnis and Shiites in reality, but I don’t expect many of the Super Bowl-winning team’s defensive linemen to understand it.
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Maxwell Wolf :
Date: February 14, 2012 @ 1:12 PM
“This is just another Arab-Islamic power struggle…”
The Hatfield-McCoy feud might be closer to the mark.
duggans dew :
Date: February 14, 2012 @ 5:41 PM
As Dr. Kissinger apparently said of the Iran-Iraq War, “If only they could both lose.” They broke or damaged a lot of people but signally failed to destroy each other’s capacity to irritate.
Glendronach :
Date: February 15, 2012 @ 11:39 AM
One bonus would be seeing the Russians lose their naval base at Tartus amd four billion dollars worth of arms sales. I believe the Russian term for this is злорадство.