Middle East Focus: Some Oligarchs Want a New Gulf War, and They want it Soon………

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Some Oligarchs Want a New Gulf War, and They want it Soon………

“Officially, all the Arab rulers of the Gulf and other Arab leaders are strenuously opposed to any Israeli and/or U.S. air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. But that opposition is eroding rapidly…….. Is it serendipitous that the United Arab Emirates is in favor of bombing Iran? These funny little countries constitute virtually an Arab extension of Anglo-American hegemony. They include Dubai of course, perhaps the most virulently Westernized state of the Arab world and various other tiny slivers of desert that host American air power or allow landing and take-off facilities, etc. Al Jazeera, the so-called Arab media service was set up there as well, staffed by former BBC operatives and funded by a Sheik who is strongly backed by Western powers. Why would America seek a three-front war? Well, the answer is that it doesn't; in fact it's worse! Right now, America is all-but-at-war with Pakistan (over Afghanistan) so this can rightly be conceived of as a potential FOUR front war. Another way to say this is that America is about to set the Middle East ablaze? Will Israel sit out the fireworks? How about Syria, Libya, et. al? We really cannot see where America is going with all this. The Times article has one (cynical) answer, as follows: "The temptation for President Obama to double down on Iran will grow rapidly as he concludes that Afghanistan will remain a festering sore as far as anyone can peer into a murky future, hardly a recipe for success at the polls in November. With a war in Afghanistan, which is bound to get worse, and a military theater in Iraq replete with sectarian violence, the bombing of Iran may give Mr. Obama a three-front war - and a chance to retain both houses of Congress…….."

I will have to repeat what I wrote here a few days ago: if these oligarchs in my Gulf want war, nay demand war, they should go for it. After all, they have the best-armed military forces the other side of NATO and Israel- the best weapons that money can buy. They spend tens of billions a year on expensive weapons systems (and the fat ~~bribes~~ commissions to potentates that are prerequisites of national security). Nobody is entitled to a war fought by others. The least anyone who wants a war should do is participate in the war. Even a country where the citizens are only about 10% of the population (the 90% are temporary expatriate labor) can recruit its own “foreign Legion” to make up a, say, battalion or two.
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