Nuclear War Becoming Increasingly Likely
Mar 7, 2012 11:51:35 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 7, 2012 11:51:35 GMT -5
Nuclear War Is Becoming Increasingly Likely in the Middle East
Author: Glenn Contrarian — Published: Mar 05, 2012 at 7:44 pm 8
I don't like to be an alarmist, but pieces are starting to fall together in a particularly uncomfortable way, and we here in the West are the last to see it.
We're all familiar with the "Arab Spring" that has worked its way across the Middle East and North Africa, and of its latest iteration in Syria which threatens to erupt into civil war. Now we might say, "So what? Another civil war in the Middle East that doesn't affect us." Oh, but if the puppets who are pulling the strings lose control, the result will indeed affect all of us. We would be wise to pay attention, because we may be approaching a showdown between the Shi'a and the Sunni Muslims of the world.
Most Americans have at one point or another heard the terms "Sunni" and "Shi'a" in news stories about the Middle East, but few of us really understand the meaning. Even those of us who are more familiar with Islam have a tendency to equate the Sunni/Shi'a schism with the Catholic/Protestant schism of mainstream Christianity. Even President George W. Bush, just two months before America invaded Iraq was unaware that there are two major sects of Islam and so could not have imagined the gift he was handing Shi'a Iran by toppling Saddam Hussein, whose government was comprised mostly of minority Sunnis. No, the Islamic schism is much deeper and more prone to violence than anything mainstream Christianity has faced since the days of the Spanish Main. In fact, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the one time second in command of al-Qaeda (which is a hard-line Sunni group) was exploring ways to draw America into a war with Shi'a Iran.
Now it looks as if the conflict between the Shi'a supported government and the Sunni backed people in Syria is beginning to take the form of a direct confrontation between Shi'a and Sunni Islam as a whole. Islamic scholar Vali Nasr is a former State Department adviser who formerly taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and who now teaches at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He points out in the article, "This portends very bad things for the region. If this gets worse and becomes a full-scale civil war...this will spill over. Other countries are vulnerable...and could end up having a bigger, broader conflict in the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran."
Click link for the rest of the story:
Read more: blogcritics.org/politics/article/nuclear-war-is-becoming-increasingly-likely/#ixzz1oRzMtCAj
Author: Glenn Contrarian — Published: Mar 05, 2012 at 7:44 pm 8
I don't like to be an alarmist, but pieces are starting to fall together in a particularly uncomfortable way, and we here in the West are the last to see it.
We're all familiar with the "Arab Spring" that has worked its way across the Middle East and North Africa, and of its latest iteration in Syria which threatens to erupt into civil war. Now we might say, "So what? Another civil war in the Middle East that doesn't affect us." Oh, but if the puppets who are pulling the strings lose control, the result will indeed affect all of us. We would be wise to pay attention, because we may be approaching a showdown between the Shi'a and the Sunni Muslims of the world.
Most Americans have at one point or another heard the terms "Sunni" and "Shi'a" in news stories about the Middle East, but few of us really understand the meaning. Even those of us who are more familiar with Islam have a tendency to equate the Sunni/Shi'a schism with the Catholic/Protestant schism of mainstream Christianity. Even President George W. Bush, just two months before America invaded Iraq was unaware that there are two major sects of Islam and so could not have imagined the gift he was handing Shi'a Iran by toppling Saddam Hussein, whose government was comprised mostly of minority Sunnis. No, the Islamic schism is much deeper and more prone to violence than anything mainstream Christianity has faced since the days of the Spanish Main. In fact, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the one time second in command of al-Qaeda (which is a hard-line Sunni group) was exploring ways to draw America into a war with Shi'a Iran.
Now it looks as if the conflict between the Shi'a supported government and the Sunni backed people in Syria is beginning to take the form of a direct confrontation between Shi'a and Sunni Islam as a whole. Islamic scholar Vali Nasr is a former State Department adviser who formerly taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and who now teaches at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He points out in the article, "This portends very bad things for the region. If this gets worse and becomes a full-scale civil war...this will spill over. Other countries are vulnerable...and could end up having a bigger, broader conflict in the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran."
Click link for the rest of the story:
Read more: blogcritics.org/politics/article/nuclear-war-is-becoming-increasingly-likely/#ixzz1oRzMtCAj
