Gulf Arab Leaders: Obama Admin. Is Biggest Threat to our Security
Iran “interferes…in the affairs of all Gulf states….We face a reckless neighbor…which has territorial ‘aspirations in the Gulf’ and to dominate Iraq.” Yet the Gulf Arabs don’t want to be dragged into a U.S.-Iran war either. Presumably they want the United States and even Israel to solve the problem for them.
Yet from their standpoint, objectively U.S. policy does help Tehran:
“The United States has granted Iran many of its dreams in the region, including the toppling of Saddam [Hussein], active presence of Iran in Iraq and the exporting of the revolution into the Arab world…. The Americans say: ‘We are exporting the revolution to the Arab world.’ If their aim is indeed to export the revolution, they subscribe to the same mentality as Khomeini.”
It is no mistake to think that the policy of the Obama administration is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the internal threat to the Gulf Arabs, though that group is also no friend to Iran. “America is now embracing” the Muslim Brotherhood. “When the Iranian public took to the streets, the people were trodden on, crushed, beaten, and thrown into prison, but when the public in the Gulf took action” Iran supported it. But so did the United States.
Thus, Tamim is right to describe U.S. policy as the enemy of the Gulf Arabs. And it is also the enemy of the democratic forces in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, not even to mention of Israeli interests. The same point will become clear in the not-distant future regarding Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, too.
On the list of security threats, Israel was not even mentioned and this also reflects Gulf Arab thinking. This doesn’t mean they don’t think about the Palestinian issue at all. They know precisely their stance — supporting the Palestinians and their getting a state — but it just isn’t a high priority. But look at how they think about it:
“The rights of the Arab Palestinian people [are] are violated more than the rights of any other people. So how come the United States does not take action, and recognize the right of the Palestinian people to establish a state? The United States has declared its rejection of a state for the Palestinian people.”
Of course, the U.S. government accepted in principle a Palestinian state almost 20 years ago, working hard to bring one about through negotiations in the 1990s and since then. True, the United States rejected a unilateral declaration of independence but to say it has rejected a state is not true. Still, if 20 years of effort and billions of dollars in aid yield no acknowledgment that it ever happened, then how much is it worth?
He also addresses internal affairs and here the Gulf problem comes out clearly: Will these countries be democracies or monarchies? He evinces the current Western debate and catchwords: “Growing gap between the ruler and his subjects….The more we restrict these liberties, the more we can expect the people whose freedoms we restrict to revolt against us.” He speaks of how it is undesirable to have a life-long ruler (then how can there be democracy?); the need to fight corruption, to have equality before the law; more freedom more jobs; less poverty and better social services. Is this all possible without regime change? Is it all possible at all in the next, say, 20 years?
By backing the forces of revolution in the Arab world, by backing the Muslim Brotherhood, and by being too soft on Iran, Gulf Arabs believe that Obama administration policy is endangering them. They are right.
In the last analysis, all anyone really has is their “word” and the gumption to back their word up–a distinction any con doing hard time knows. I don’t think the current president really appreciates that, which is curious for a lawyer that operates pretty much only in the world of words.
Amateur hour. Simplest explanation for American ineptitude. The worst part though is how neither Clinton or Obama appeared to have learned a damn thing. I pray they don’t allow an avoidable catastrophe to happen. Please Americans-vote these clowns out of office before WWW III.
Obama and Hillary are not clowns. They are much more insidious.
Insidious in result. Once I was prepared to make an argument that their intentions are not evil but that they clearly are is obvious from Obama’s effort to impose a communist dictatorship on Honduras; although they see themselves as forward looking and progressive. Nonetheless there seems to be a Marx Brothers quality to their entire administration, sort of like the movie “Duck Soup” for villains.
Here is a question that I have yet to have answered. It was obvious from day one that Obama was going to crash and burn and take everyone he touched with him, so why did Hillary give up a senate just to join him on the road to perdition? She must be a lot dumber than anyone gave her credit for.
Inept people occasionally get things right. The Obama administration has consistently supported Islamic movements. This isn’t incompetence; this is deliberate.
Wasn’t Dahi Khalfan Tamim the Dubai police official in charge of the assassination of Hamas terror chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh? He accused the Mossad of the act, even though there was little direct evidence, except that the false passports that were used were taken of people with some connection to Israel. Based on the Dubai assertions,newspapers blamed Israel unreservedly for Mabhouh’s death, even though there was some evidence Egyptian and Jordanian secret police had been on his trail for some time. The Dubai authorities did not provide forensic evidence that definitively pointed the finger of guilt at Israel. It was very strange for it to have been a Mossad operation since one of the operatives was said to have escaped through Iran.
‘Yet the Gulf Arabs don’t want to be dragged into a U.S.-Iran war either’
Of course they like having one’s cake and eat it too. Unfortunately the guy in WH wants the same thing also. You can’t throw one under the bus and expect friendship in return. The Gulf Arabs and Hussein Obama deserve each other
“By backing the forces of revolution in the Arab world…Gulf Arabs believe that Obama administration policy is endangering them”
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RE: America W/ O’Bama presiding
Iraq – Did we punt on 3rd down and then muff it. I think we needed to draw down but NO? presence?
Iran – BO likes to talk, kicking the can until they have the bomb.
Egypt – Did we handle this right, Mubarak was certainly tossed under the bus.
Libya – Shouldn’t we have gotten some commitment about free elections?
Isreal – It’s clear that is closest ally is about to be pushed under the bus.
Great Britain – Falklands, where are they. Another Ally snubbed.
Catholics – That executive order before O’Care passed has really meant a lot. Next, HHS will surely require all Catholic pharmacies to dispense all O’Care covered drugs, soon the hospitals will need to perform all procedures, even if they violate the faith.
Jews- Well the Catholics and the Evangicals have tire tracks, they must be next. Only the Muslim faith seems to be protected.here
There seems to be a pattern here.
The Police Chief obviously didn’t get the memo. Obama’s mission, as stated in the election, is to “Fundamentally Transform the United States”, and every country allied with us prior to 2008 was also an evil, morally bankrupt country that must be destroyed. In every case Obama has backed his best buds the Muslim Brotherhood because he thinks they’re fighting the good fight. He sees them as the Occupy the Middle East wing of the Community Organizer Party. He thinks they represent the 99% against the 1% who are those currently in charge in Dubai and formerly in charge in both Egypt and Libya. And he’s at least partially aligned with Iran to destabilize Saudi Arabia, ruled by another 1% club. Ultimately though, he’ll have to turn fully against the 1% in Iran. Obama is a True Believer, everyone in charge must be brought down. Has anybody seen Obama wearing a red turban?
The chief whines “So how come the United States does not take action, and recognize the right of the Palestinian people to establish a state?” Who do you think is going to get Dubai you pathetic moron? Or maybe Obama will give them Saudi Arabia? Either way, the hornet’s nest you’ve been hitting for 50 years is swarming and we’re out of bug spray. Give Little Satan a call, maybe they’ll be your friend.
Lester.
It is the muslim brotherhood (Radicals) which is inciting revolution in the “More Moderate ” Arab countries. Egypt Libya , Tunisia , all the Arab spring countries are now infiltrated by the much more Radical muslim Brotherhood. A radical Theocratic system which will enforce Sharia LAW . The Common voter has been deceived . Although they ousted secular dictators what they have invited into their secular countries is much more ominous than what they had. strict SHARIALAW. The muslim brotherhood has a global vision, The more secular dictators know that.
Todays Iran is a perfect example as compared to life under the Shaw 30 yrs. ago.
Egypt is screwed, Mubarak at least outlawed the Muslim brotherhood
Obama SUPPORTS the brotherhood, the White Tent is infested with them
Our universities are infested with them.
I advise you and everyone to purchase the book called “MUSLIM MAFIA” BY David Gaubatz. Their is no better book in understanding their Stated goals and intentions and how seriously every political and educational institution in the U.S.A. ,to the highest eshelons of the osama administration is infested with the muslim brotherhood.Take a good look at all of osamas appointees , especially eric holder . This book will blow your mind . Check out Commie Blaster.com
An odd question, but no, it’s not off-topic-
Just who IS paying for the 70,000 ‘security contractors’ in Iraq?
And why?
While that’s certainly true, I don’t think it has much effect.
Again, look at Turkey. Probably Obama’s favorite leader is that of Turkey. Yet Turkey has been turning more and more hostile against the West and Israel since he was elected.
The real problem is with out culture. It’s basically rotten. No, I’m not talking about the imagined horror of gays getting married that many Republicans are worked up about, but the loss of our freedoms, both in the name of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs. We’ve given up so many of our rights, we’re treated by cattle when we fly (worse than cattle) and it just shows how weak and scared we are.
We need to start focusing on freedom – our freedom. We have no real need to lock up so many people in the name of the drug war. Canada is hardly a terrible place, yet somehow gets by imprisoning 600% fewer people. We need to fix the health care system – the government has made health insurance so mandatory for health care because its meddling has driven the prices sky high.
Once we are a free country again, not afraid of every shadow we see, then countries will respect us more, rather than just laugh at us, cowering under our beds because the Irans are rattling their sabers at us.
Ineptitude? No. Accusing Obama of being inept is to misunderstand what he believes…what his goal is. He is totally on the road to accomplish that goal. You have start with first principles.
America is a white, racist, hegemonic CRACKER POWER that has brought nothing but pain and oppression to the non-white peoples of the world.
Obama’s goal is not only to eliminate that CRACKER POWER by redistributing its wealth and power within (and especially without) to everyone who is NOT from that part of America that is the great “evil”, but, to leave behind a world that can will be ever vigilant to prevent the return of the CRACKER POWER and to work for its utter elimination as a part of humanity.
Hence the huge debts to China and to global NGO’s and like-minded hedge funds that can never be paid off. Encouraging the free run of illegal aliens to dominate huge parts of our nation and resources. The gutting of our military, submitting huge parts of it to UN/foreign control, turning impending victory in both the “illegal wars” to utter loss and waste of resources, and even potential defeat on the battlefield of big chunks of it by Taliban/Iran. The abuse to the point of hostility of every nation that were once our allies. The removal of leaders who control populations that have been made intrinsically hostile to us in favor of leaders and potential empires that will work to destroy the West. Encouraging the return of Soviet Union. Creating a situation where Iran can defeat the US militarily in a way that gives heart to all who wish our downfall and demoralize the West to surrender to to new non-white global powers like the Bolivarian Empire that Obama is helping to come into existence in South and Central America. Cutting off all our internal energy supplies in favor of weak sources that have already failed to function.
Obama’s “change” is the rendering of Western culture to the place where he believes it truly belongs – as history alongside the “great evils” of the past like Nazism, slavery, the Spanish Inquisition, and other barbarisms that are now just dust in the wind.
Article: “the U.S. government accepted in principle a Palestinian state almost 20 years ago, working hard to bring one about through negotiations in the 1990s and since then.”
Who is America or any other country to demand that little Israel, surrounded by hate-filled enemies, surrender half her country to barbaric enemies bent on Jewish genocide? Barbaric Muslim terrorist killers of Jews are regarded as HUGE heroes by PA Muslims. Sports teams, streets and city squares are dedicated to, and named after savage killers of Jewish innocents. Muslim monster killers are regarded as role models to be emulated.
How far and how low Western civilization has fallen that the US/EU/UK/UN demand tiny Israel surrender half her land to barbaric enemies who plan a Second Holocaust of Jews.
Obama is far more anti-Black than he is anti-White.
Barbaric atrocities and genocide of Blacks was perpetrated by anti-Gaddafi Muslims for most of last year and is continuing. Blacks were safe under Gaddafi!
ALL pro-Gaddafi people are targeted by anti-Gaddafi Muslims. US/NATO’s war against Gaddafi and Libya unleashed HELL ON EARTH in Libya. Is it ethical for US/NATO to ignore the agony and massive suffering their unjust, illegal war created? And just walk away and leave HELL ON EARTH in Libya?
UK DAILY MAIL: Pro-Gaddafi supporters in Libya are being tortured, says United Nations.
26th January 2012
United Nations report reveal that up to 8,000 pro-Gaddafi supporters were being held by militia groups in Libya.
Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay claimed they are being held in appalling conditions and are being abused and tortured.
While Amnesty International state that detainees have died after being tortured by militias in detention centres.
Torture and violence is widespread.
General Director of MSF Christopher Stokes reinforced the UN assertions and said: ‘Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for more interrogation.
‘This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.
Rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about torture being used against people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, suspected of having fought for Muammar Gaddafi’s forces during Libya’s nine-month civil war.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092125/Libya-Pro-Gaddafi-supporters-tortured-says-United-Nations.html
Gaddafi was reformed and cooperating fully with the US and other Western powers. Gaddafi had his picture taken many times with American, British and European leaders. Gaddafi referred to President Obama as his son. Why did US/NATO go to war against Gaddafi and Libya? Gaddafi was fighting against Al-Qaeda.
Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and the commander of the U.S. European Command told the U.S. Senate
that Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah fighters are among the Libyan rebels
currently receiving support from the US and its NATO allies. This was
confirmed by one of the Libyan rebel officers, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who leads one of the Al-Qaeda units.
(US Aid to Israel’s Enemies, Oct 13th, 2011, frontpagemag)
U.S/NATO joined with Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorists to wage relentless war for months. Bombing Libya back to the stone age.
Barbaric Al Qaeda and Hezbollah who MURDER our troops in Iraq were considered desirable for placing in power in Libya. US/NATO have great guilt in making the world a far more dangerous place.
The hell he did.
Gaddafi bent over backwards to liberate the terrorist murderer al-Megrahi fron British prison. (The despicable Gordon Brown made the deal over strong objections for the US – one thing Obama cannot be blamed for.)
Gaddafi invented “Islamic honors” to bestow on Louis Farrakhan, a fellow America-hater.
Gaddafi was best buddies with loathsome Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, another America-hater, naming a stadium in his honor. Chavez in turn supported Gaddafi right to the end, and even offered him sanctuary in Venezuela.
Gaddafi had working relationships with the Iranian regime – though it turned on him when he was clearly doomed.
His removal and death is good news for the U.S. – though the sequel may not be much better.
To Rich Rostrom,
Gaddafi had reformed. Is it acceptable to you that in Libya, the U.S. supported barbaric Al Qaeda and Hezbollah who MURDER our troops in Iraq?
I am utterly horrified that anti-Gaddafi Muslims have been perpetrating atrocities and genocide for many months against Blacks. Blacks were SAFE under Gaddafi! See below article:
Human rights investigations
evidence-based, independent and rigorous investigation of human rights abuses
Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people
Posted on July 7, 2011 by HRI Mark
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/07/libya-ethnic-cleansing/
Click on the above link. Absolutely horrifying. All made possible because of the totally unprovoked, illegal US/NATO war. Shocking ongoing barbaric atrocities and genocide of Blacks by the US backed Muslim rebels has been going on for several months. Under Gaddafi, Blacks lived in safety.
US/NATO are RESPONSIBLE for rescuing the many thousands of terrified Black men, women and children held captive by cruel monsters. US/NATO must not be so ruthless as to ignore the terrible suffering their military intervention has created. God help the Black people!
“the brigade for purging slaves, black skin”
- slogan seen painted in rebel country.
US/FRANCE/UK/NATO unleashed hell on earth in Libya.
To Rich Rostrom,
BLACKS MUST HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS!
Gaddafi was AGAINST the SUDAN genocide and SUPPORTED the innocent Black Muslim and Christian victims of barbaric atrocities and genocide perpetrated by SUDAN’s Arab Muslim Bashir. See article below:
Rights group condemns Libya visit by Sudan’s Bashir
By REUTERS
01/07/2012
Sudanese President al-Bashir, wanted by the ICC for orchestrating Darfur genocide, pays an official visit to Libya.
TRIPOLI – Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, arrived in Libya on Saturday, drawing criticism from a human rights group.
Bashir, wanted by The Hague-based court on charges of orchestrating genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, was met by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council, at Tripoli airport.
Abdul Jalil, who visited Khartoum in November, has said Sudanese weapons and ammunition helped Libya’s former rebels oust Muammar Gaddafi last year and take control of the North African country.
Relations between Khartoum and Tripoli were strained during Gaddafi’s rule because of his support for rebels in Sudan’s western Darfur region and in South Sudan, which gained independence in July under a 2005 peace deal.
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=252597
rick- this is all extremely moot. the arab spring has happened.
Is America unreliable? Most definitely — more so than at any time in the past. I suspect every ally we still have is now assuming the US may not back them up and they are planning accordingly. I know I would be. I would also assume my enemies have also come to the same conclusion. American unreliability and perceived weakness, and international economic crises, are rapidly making the world more unstable than at any time prior to WW II.
Is America weak? In terms of military capability? No, for now — but that may be changing. In terms of will, purpose, self-assurance in its long standing policies, and confidence in itself as a force for good in the world? Yes, most definitely, America is weak.
Just one example of American weakness in will and purpose — extremist protesters aside, most of the world quietly laughs at our extreme introspection and self criticism over things like Gitmo and the relatively benign water-boarding (with doctors present) of a few mass-murdering terrorists who made 9/11 happen and who were actively planning similar attacks. I’m fairly certain there is not a nation on earth now, nor has there ever been, that would not have done far worse to KSM to find out what other plans he had in the works for them if 9/11 had happened on their soil, if he had murdered 3000 on their soil in about an hour, in an attempt to murder more than 30,000. We are not admired for our self-criticism about this. Our allies think us fools. And we are laughed at, ridiculed, and despised for it by our enemies.
Lester
Perhaps i didn’t make myself clear enough . The goals of those behind the Arab spring ( the muslim brotherhood), are not only a regional Caliphate , but global as well. The spring may have happened ,but summer is yet to come , or shall i say winter
Come on and quit your whining! Isn’t it enough that the World’s Only Pretender Superpower, Russia, is feeling the heat? Putin is backpedaling fast enough to become an NFL All-Pro cornerback!
Without Putin, where will the Ahmadinejads and Assads be? Surrounded by hostle neighbors perhaps?
rick- we will have to fight them in a battle for the ages when they decide to attack then. It’s far too late to stop the momentum from the arab spring. All these jokers are gonna go one way or another, sooner or later and probably us and all our bases and probably though not definitely Israel too. The demographics are sinmply on the arab and persians side. law of the jungle.
Once you had Jimmy Carter, and from Europe we could easily discern he was a totally inept guy full of himself, having no clues what was the outside word.Thanks God , you kicked him out and had a super Alpha male president for 2 terms (Ronald Reagan ).Now the person in the White house is a much more dangerous character; he knows very well the outside world, thanks to the the Jeremy Wright Weltaunschaung and is totally commited to destroy the western world by any means.
He will dump traditionnal allies , will favor radicals whatever their name and their hate of the USA, he will act in a sly, cunning , subversive manner.So call it a trotskyst, call it a muslim mole, call it a radical in velvet suit, call it a subversive, I don’ t care , I just see the results and I draw a line between the dots.BHO is Mr shipwrecker No.1, a grandiose phenomena and it is very urgent to quick him out of the White House.
WHY DO WE SIT BACK AND WATCH THIS GO ON & ON…OBAMA NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT OF OUR W.H. AND PUT IN JAIL….WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND CAN SIT AND WATCH OBAMA TAKE OVER OUR COUNTRY..WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ARREST OBAMA, DOES ANYONE KNOW.
SOMEONE MUST STEP IN SOON. GOD BLESS ALL, GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.
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