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Posted by WillD on Wed Mar 4 04:31:29 2015, in response to Anti-Israel Newspaper Al-Arabiya Backs Netanyahu, Insists Obama is Wrong, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Mar 3 15:48:52 2015. The Saudis haven't exactly been as vociferous in claiming Daesh is evil incarnate as Jordan has. The Iranians have taken notice of that, and the close links between Wahabism and Salafism, and there supposedly had some grumbling that Daesh is at best state-sponsored terrorism with the Saudis as the supporters. At worst Daesh's genocidal tendencies against Shiites then makes them an arm of the Saudis carrying out a genocide. That story isn't exactly logical as the Daesh rejects the claim of the Saudi royal family to their part of the Arabian peninsula. But it really doesn't help that Senators McCain, and Graham urged the Saudis to arm the Syrian rebels that ultimately became Daesh in January of last year. The Saudis conveniently forgot to give money to the Shiite rebels while lavishing heavy infantry weapons on the Sunni rebels. And then there's the fact that the Salafism of Daesh and Wahhabism practiced in Saudi Arabia are very closely related.So we have Iran, with its majority Shiite population, watching a terrorist organization with ties to the Saudis that could be argued to be stronger than their own ties to Hezbollah, being forced to sit on its hands while that terrorist group slaughters Shiites by the thousand in neighboring Iraq. At some point if Daesh keeps up their genocide Iran is going to take a more active role, and they'd be absolutely idiotic to restrict their attack to Daesh. If they feel the Saudis are the root of Daesh's power then they'd need to make some sort of strike across the Persian Gulf. The US is going to have a hard choice to make. We know the Saudis have given aid to Daesh. We told them to do that. We know that ISIS and Al-Qaida fighters are held in "prisons" that are closer to four star hotels and are paid handsomely for their stay. At some point we're going to have to realize that the Saudis may be one of the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East. Will we side with big oil and turn a blind eye to Saudi terrorism, or will we acknowledge the Saudis' culpability, step aside, and let the Iranians have it out with the Saudis? None of this of course means Iran should have the bomb. But in this case Israel is a minor factor. I've argued the primary target of an Iranian nuke would be Riyadh, Doha, Bahrain, or Abu Dhabi, and the rise of Daesh and their Shiite genocide could well have given a nuclear armed Iran a rationale for a first strike. I think it's quite possible a non-nuclear Iran will contemplate strategic strikes against the Saudis, if only to impair their economy and deter further support for Daesh. |
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