Saudi Arabia launches air attacks in Yemen
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Sounds like the Saudis did the right thing then.
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Obama's fault!..
Saudi Arabia says it won’t rule out building nuclear weapons to counter Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/politics/saudi-open-to-nuclear-bomb/index.html
Saudi Arabia says it won’t rule out building nuclear weapons to counter Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/politics/saudi-open-to-nuclear-bomb/index.html
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You are a racist if you do not want nukes for one country that wants to nuke another country full of terrorists...or sumthin like that
They know that Obama is not gonna rush in to do their fighting. They have to do something. Good for Obama. As long as american's are willing to rush into an area where terrorist are, the Muslim countries will sit back and allow us to fight for them. Afterwards, they will give us the finger, and hand us their *** to kiss.
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That isn't the problem. The problem is that he is allowing Iran to get nukes and SA is now saying they want some. We are also giving support Iranian backed fighters in Iraq and fighting them in Yemen. It's a clusterfuck of a policy.
Going to war with Iran will not help the situation. I like the fact that the middle east is shaping up to be one big *** Muslim fight. Let them go at it for the next 20 years.
They've been fighting for at least 3000 years, so why not?
Well this is a little different. Things are escalating. The more they fight one another, there is less time to worry about the infidels.
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Obama's fault
Arab Leaders Agree on Joint Military Force
CAIRO — The Arab states said on Sunday that they had agreed to form a combined military force to counter both Iranian influence and Islamist extremism, a gesture many analysts attributed in large part to their drive for more independence from Washington.
The agreement came as American and other Western diplomats in Lausanne, Switzerland, were racing to beat a self-imposed deadline of Tuesday to reach a deal with Iran that would restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of economic sanctions. In response, Saudi Arabia and other American allies in the region have made clear that they are seeking to bolster independent regional security measures because they see the proposed accord as a betrayal of Washington’s commitment to their security.
Regardless of Iran’s nuclear program, they complain, the deal would do nothing to stop Iran from seeking to extend its influence around the region by backing favored factions, as it has done in Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen.
Many of the Arab nations, including Egypt, Jordan and most of the Persian Gulf monarchies, have thrown their support behind a Saudi Arabia-led campaign of airstrikes to counter advances by the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in Yemen; Washington is providing only intelligence and logistical support, but Saudi Arabia is leading the bombing while Egypt, with the largest Arab army, has pledged to send ground troops “if necessary.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/w...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Arab Leaders Agree on Joint Military Force
CAIRO — The Arab states said on Sunday that they had agreed to form a combined military force to counter both Iranian influence and Islamist extremism, a gesture many analysts attributed in large part to their drive for more independence from Washington.
The agreement came as American and other Western diplomats in Lausanne, Switzerland, were racing to beat a self-imposed deadline of Tuesday to reach a deal with Iran that would restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of economic sanctions. In response, Saudi Arabia and other American allies in the region have made clear that they are seeking to bolster independent regional security measures because they see the proposed accord as a betrayal of Washington’s commitment to their security.
Regardless of Iran’s nuclear program, they complain, the deal would do nothing to stop Iran from seeking to extend its influence around the region by backing favored factions, as it has done in Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen.
Many of the Arab nations, including Egypt, Jordan and most of the Persian Gulf monarchies, have thrown their support behind a Saudi Arabia-led campaign of airstrikes to counter advances by the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in Yemen; Washington is providing only intelligence and logistical support, but Saudi Arabia is leading the bombing while Egypt, with the largest Arab army, has pledged to send ground troops “if necessary.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/w...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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Nice piece on why the Sunnis and Shiites are not BFFs. And let's not kid ourselves, battle lines in the ME are being drawn along sectarian fault lines.
http://www.cfr.org/peace-conflict-and-human-rights/sunni-shia-divide/p33176#!/
http://www.cfr.org/peace-conflict-and-human-rights/sunni-shia-divide/p33176#!/
Religious wars in the middle east... whod a thunk....
