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Putin’s Reckless Syria Escalation Makes Russia, Russians, Target of Global Jihad (Again)

... regimes there. The two big culminations of these efforts in Iraq were in 2006, when Iraq nearly erupted into full-scale civil war, and in 2014, when ISIS nearly marched on Baghdad after taking much of the country from Maliki’s... ... (Ba'athist), it is headed by Arab Alawite (a sect of Shiite Islam that is a small minority in Syria) Bashar al-Assad and is controlled mainly by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Sunni Muslims, in general,... ... 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...

03.10.2015

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Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part II: Syria

... 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 ... ... Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of ... ... the U.S. specifically partnering with its allies Iraq and (NATO member) Turkey to use drones, reconnaissance ... ... this conflict (e.g. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, the Gulf states…), and 4.) since the overall post-2003 ...

03.08.2015

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