It’s good to know these things….

The Russians are helping the Iranians with their nuclear power. After we deal with the Iranian government, and after we spend tons of money and after we waste thousands of man hours dealing with Iran, the Russians will simply move on and supply some other America-hating regime with nukes. I’d guess Syria will be next, but the possibilities are endless.

The goal of the Russian game is to deplete our economy by making us play unnecessary wargames. The best way to deal with this is to remove the middleman. If we have any threats to make, make them against Russia, not small and relatively worthless regimes like Iran. Yes, we need to decimate the current Iranian regime, but we need to put the nuclear issue where it belongs – with Russia.

We’re playing the same game of nuclear poker that we’ve been playing for years, but for some odd reason, we’re afraid to face the facts about the real players. I don’t know why – I guess it’s because we’ve all gotten so used to terrorist wars of proxy, we can’t face old-fashioned MAD.

But in Yemen, it is clear that al Qaeda and the Yemeni government (and the Saudi government) are more closely allied than al Qaeda and Iran ever were.

And yes, the conflicts in the muslim world make for strange bedfellows and marriages of convenience, but there is no reason for the American government to support Saudi al Qaeda or Iran. The state department will tell us that we (and Israel) must ally with Saudi Arabia for economic and political reasons, but that’s just not true. Many members of our government profit greatly from their friendship with the Saudis, but the American people just suffer because of this relationship. We don’t even get most of our oil from the region. Most of our oil comes from the Western Hemisphere.

The people who tell us that we must be allied with the supporters of al Qaeda are lying. They don’t HAVE to be allied with the Sauds, they WANT to be allied with them. And they will do anything they can to maintain this alliance, including placing the blame for Saudi actions on any number of usual suspects.

According to state department spin, first it was Saddam who was allied with al Qaeda, now it’s Iran. Give me a break.

A joint Israeli – Saudi strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities is far more likely to succeed than Israel alone. Together they could also deal with Iran’s direct and proxy retaliations far better than either alone.

Yes, the Iranian government is a serious problem. So are Saudi supporters of terrorism. If we only deal with one of these enemies, the terrorists win. Better to find a way to deal with both problems.

Since we’ve been working with Saudi supporters of terrorism for a long time, they are pretty easy for us to deal with without any large scale military action. We can learn some lessons from how the Russians and Iranians dealt with Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shi’ite leader who was once called the most dangerous man in Iraq. When the Iranians and Russians decided that they were tired of working with him, he disappeared for months, and his armies were decimated. I think he ate some bad sushi…?