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AMMAN — Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Syrian vortex of death, and Russia’s role in this vortex, knows that Putin’s... ... framing the intervention as Russia taking a responsible and leading role in combating ISIS and preserving state sovereignty/the world order; this in turn can hopefully
... ... Sunnis do not even consider Shiites to be Muslims. That is why so much money from rich Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar is going to fund, train, arm, and equip Sunni...
... Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil War
Grading Obama on what has—and ... ... deadliest. Here, as in other situations, we have a crisis in which we must be careful not to blame Obama ... ... by their Arab brethren in the happier days of the Arab Spring in 2011. This was, generally, a struggle ... ... major Western governments (including that of the United States), Human Rights Watch, and later by the ... ... this conflict (e.g. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, the Gulf states…), and 4.) since the overall post-2003 ...
... While an ostensible explanation for this would be the Arab Spring, in a larger sense, America is like a developmentally ... ... America will try very hard to distance itself from the Gulf.
It’s amazing that it’s taken us ... ... recently got in trouble for saying so, support for ISIS and other Islamic extremists and terrorists from ... ... ever-present-throughout-the-Gulf religious cult of Wahhabism/Salafism streams out of the Gulf like an ... ... foreign aid, Obama and Americans, as was/is the case in Syria and Iraq, seems to prefer a “don’t ...