America increasingly views the conflict developing in the Saudi - Yemen border as a fight with Iran. In a region mired in conflicts with Iran, Yemen would appear to be the latest battleground. In the coming weeks, the United States is slated to boost its 200-strong Special Forces training contingent already in Yemen. U.S. soldiers be targeted by the Houthis—based on a January 14 fatwa against foreign troops signed by 150 non-Houthi clerics including a member of parliament. Not a dull moment in Middle Earth, sorry, Middle East.
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What this points to is that the conflict between Islam and the West is a civilizational conflict and isn't going away, because the West is not addressing it in any systematic way. It is as if the Allies had viewed the fighting in N. Africa and the Western front and the Eastern front and Asia as entirely separate skirmishes. We would never had won the war if it had been viewed that way.
What is needed (I regret to say) is some painful blow to Islam (akin to the nuking of Hiroshima or the firebombing of Dresden) which once and for all convinces every would be jihadist to spend his time in some other way lest not only he but his wives and mother and children be incinerated, so that even the most radical cleric counsels the path of peace and redefines jihad to mean some inner spiritual struggle and not actual fighting with guns.
So long as we continue to send trillions of $ to Saudia Arabia for their oil, which is used to fund their madrassas, their is no hope and in fact things are proceeding in the wrong direction - in some formerly liberal areas such as Indonesia where Islam was always practiced in a loose and tropical way, the stern Wahhabism of the desert is now gaining ground.
When Saudi Arabia was an impoverished backwater, they exported no ideology. We need to return them to that status.
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We are passing through a difficult period. In one generation more, Saudia, Iran and other Middle East countries (except Iraq) will be dry (without oil, not only without water). Then they will lose their influence and will be seen as what they are: nothing.
Faster please!
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