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AMMAN — Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Syrian vortex of death, and Russia’s role in this vortex,... ... like all of Catholic Europe will be sending holy warriors in a crusade to fight Orthodox Russia’s attempts to annex the ethnic ... ... controlled mainly by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Sunni ... ... 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,...
A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil War
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been ... ... were inspired by their Arab brethren in the happier days of the Arab Spring in 2011. This was, generally, a struggle for freedom,... ... and, unlike Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of any Western ... ... international meddlers in this conflict (e.g. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, the Gulf states…), and 4.) since the overall post-2003 Iraq ...
... change. While an ostensible explanation for this would be the Arab Spring, in a larger sense, America is like a developmentally ... ... expect:
1.) America will try very hard to distance itself from the Gulf.
It’s amazing that it’s taken us so long to ... ... of U.S. foreign aid, Obama and Americans, as was/is the case in Syria and Iraq, seems to prefer a “don’t do stupid ... ... world.
4.) There’s a good chance for a thaw/deal with Iran in the near future.
More than any president since the Iranian ...
