Iraq Exposes Arab Hypocrisy and Helplessness……………..
This writer, a mouthpiece for the oligarchy, is lamenting that Iraq now does not represent its people, that the Americans and Iranians were partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He represents a multitude of hired house writers and academics repeating the message. He laments what he calls Iranian influence in Iraq, as if influence comes out of the thin air. As if the mullahs in Tehran have not had an embassy in Baghdad for more than six years while the Arab oligarchs dithered and postponed as they tried to find a potentate brave enough to risk the Baghdad station. The Americans tried from the outset to get the Arab oligarchs to post representatives in Baghdad. Only a handful of countries like Kuwait and Egypt had the sense to send ambassadors early, and the Egyptian did not last long because he was murdered by the terrorists whose goals are not much different from the goals of the oligarchs. The richest country, the one aspiring to lead other Arabs, has promised for years to open an embassy, but instead it seems to have decided to rely on financing some tribal elders to do its bidding.
They pretend to worry about Iraqi sovereignty, as if 150 thousand foreign troops are not already in Iraq, have not been in Iraq for six years. As if the invasion of Iraq was not a joint American-British-Arab invasion and did not happen with ‘indispensable’ Arab help. As if the Gulf, my Gulf, is not firmly the Persian-American Gulf now, and deservedly so (before that it was the Anglo-Persian Gulf- we may also add the French now, given the new military bases talked about).
They wax nearly poetic, showing indignation, these undemocratic potentates and their tame media writers, professors, and editors, mostly in the Persian-American Gulf region. They worry about 11 soldiers the Iranian regime foolishly sent into disputed territory. They pretend to worry about Iraqi sovereignty, these writers of the oligarchs, some of them former sycophants of the old Baath regime with new masters, yet they have thousands of foreign troops based in their own countries. By invitation, of course, and understandably for defense purposes: nations have the right to invite whomever they want if their national security requires it.
Why not let the Iraqis decide what they want, settle their own disputes?
Cheers and Happy Holidays
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