Thursday, November 12, 2009
Influence of Egypt and Saudi Arabia Fades
"With Israel having rebuffed American calls to freeze settlement-building, and with the prospects for substantive peace talks fading, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are increasingly viewed in the region as diminished actors whose influence is on the wane, political experts say."
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Thank God. At least one good thing is coming from this.
ReplyDeleteStill, how could Israel stiff us like this? Are we some weak pitiful giant like Nixon said? Why can't Americans stand up for America again.
The Arab client regimes bear much of the responsibility for what has so tragically happened to the peoples of the Middle East region, most especially to the Palestinian people. Together with Israel and the US it is these regimes that pushed and pushed for the miserable Oslo Peace Process in the first place, in the wake of the even more terrible Gulf War that has decimated Iraq and brought American and Western forces to occupy the region even more directly than previously.
ReplyDelete"<span style="">The Arab client regimes bear much of the responsibility for what has so tragically happened to the peoples of the Middle East region, most especially to the Palestinian people.<span style="">" True.</span></span>
ReplyDeleteDid Saddam invading Kuwait have to do with the Gulf War?
Could the Arab states have stopped Saddam without international help? The only way this could have happened is if they made an alliance with Iran . . . but of course working with Shiites is blaspheme.
<span> but of course working with Shiites is blaspheme.</span>
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Nonsense.
Then why didn't they do it?
ReplyDeleteSyria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Afghan Mujahaddin sent troops to fight Saddam. But collectively they didn't think they could do this, so they asked for help.
Turkey offered more than 20,000 troops to defend Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis turned them down flat. Why? Turkey as it was nearly invaded Iraq from the North to tie down the Iraqi Army.
Back then, many incorrectly thought the Iraqi Army was capable. So why didn't the Arab states form an alliance with Iran? Iran more than anyone wanted to defeat Saddam and help the Iraqi resistance free the Iraqi people. But the Arabs refused to work with Iran. What is the reason?