On Australian Reporters, Amanpour, Hezbullah, a Renewed Iraq War
Tens of Shi’as are being killed each day again by explosions. On the other hand, the rhetoric against Shi’as and Shi’a rule is being escalated by state-paid religious shaikhs in some neighboring countries to the west and south (actually southwest) of Iraq.
Ware, who usually seems to know what he is talking about, seems to think that things are drifting back to the bad old days. Whenever CNN, or another network, sends an Australian or Christiane Amanpour to a region; that surely means things are heating up. That means war!
So who is paying all the funds needed to resume the terror campaign, this escalation of the sectarian war? Iraqi PM al-Maliki publicly attacked those neighboring states that instigate and support terror attacks. He was too polite to name names, but his patience is clearly running thin.
Oddly, even Hezbullah can be polite sometimes compared to some of the neighboring petro-media. Actually the tough Shi'a group has seemed quite genteel in its recent media broadcasts: genteel by Arab stabdards, which is not the same as being.....absolute genteel. In the past two years they never attacked Saudi Arabia by name, even as Saudi media and its Persian Gulf subsidiaries were savaging them daily as Iranian pawns. They enver said openly that Saad Hariri, for example, was a Saudi pawn: which he is at least as much as Hassan Nasrallah is an Iranian pawn.
Do you suppose the Hezbullah media people were getting paid by the same people who were financing the media blitz against them?
Speaking of which: former (unelected) prime minister Ayad Allawi was back peddling his wares on his favorite television network, al-Arabiya. He has been cultivating the neighboring Arab regimes for years. He seems to think he can win through Riyadh or Amman: someone should tell him that victory runs through Basra, Najaf, and Karbala (the Iowa and New Hampshire of Iraq these days). I’d say his chances of ever becoming PM again are as strong as those of Senator Ensign, or Newt Gingrich of ever becoming president. They might be no better than Mitt Romney’s chances. As for Rudy Giuliani: how did he ever think he had a chance?
Cheers
mhg
Mon Email
Comments