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credit: Lisa Benson
Wackydoodle sez: Y'all outta idears too! |
US Person thinks it is a refreshing change of pace to allow the Muslims to fight among themselves, even if they are vassals of an imperial power.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia announced they would invade the chaos that is Yemen in order to restore some order and prevent ISIS from creating another zone of immunity. Calling anything the terrorists set up a state is too grandiose. But the development indicates just how out of stock the would be hegemons in Washington are these spring days. Of course they will save some face by providing a "planning cell", whatever that is, and intelligence capability to the combatants. The Pentagon is even helping Iran's Shia militias trying to take Tikrit from ISIS with air raids. Less than a decade ago, these militias were fighting US soldiers for control of Iraq. The Obamanator's drone war against terror--prominently operating in Yemen--has proved insufficient to defeat transnational organizations of religious extremists bent on re-creating the Caliphate. Drones have also killed a significant number of civilians, earning the US nothing but hatred and a relative handful of dead terrorists out of a seemingly endless supply. Arguably by supporting repressive regimes in the Near East for nearly a century to protect oil supplies, and by invading and occupying a marginal Muslim state held together by a strongman it deposed, the United States sowed the seeds of regional political collapse. It even was on the wrong side of the largely failed "Arab Spring", a genuine popular uprising against tyranny in its beginning. Now, 'Merica is reaping the whirlwind for its misadventures in "the sandbox".
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credit: Mike Lukovich
BC Idonnwana sez: ...from tribe of Custer. |
