In Yemen, It’s The Bad Guys Vs. The Bad Guys

By Michael Snyder, on March 26th, 2015

Saudi Arabia and Egypt stand poised to conduct a massive ground invasion of Yemen, and the western media will be full of tales about how “Operation Decisive Storm” is liberating that country from the evil Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And without a doubt, the Houthis are bad guys and so are their Iranian benefactors. But don’t be fooled into thinking that the war in Yemen is a battle of good vs. evil. The truth is that the conflict in Yemen is actually a proxy war between two sets of bad guys that both ultimately plan for Islam to take over the entire planet. On one side, the Iranians are very honest about the fact that they view us as an enemy, and they plan to impose their version of radical Shia Islam worldwide as soon as they can. On the other side, the Saudis pretend to be our friends, but they don’t hide the fact that they believe that their version of Sunni Islam will eventually rule the world. And their version of Sunni Islam includes constant beheadings, the destruction of all churches and the death penalty for anyone caught smuggling a Bible into Saudi territory. At the end of the day, there is very little difference between the Saudis and ISIS. In fact, ISIS gets a lot of funding from Saudi sources, and there is more support for ISIS on Twitter from Saudi Arabia than from anywhere else. Saudi Arabia is a horribly repressive regime where women are treated like dirt, where the secret police conduct a never ending reign of terror and where even a minor deviation from sharia law can mean the loss of a limb. But because our politicians and the mainstream media constantly tell us that they are “our friends”, we cheer them on.

It is being reported that the Saudis have mobilized 150,000 troops for a ground invasion of Yemen, and Egypt says that it is ready to contribute a very large force as well. The Saudis simply were not going to just sit back and watch as pro-Iranian forces took total control of their neighbor. The following is how the Telegraph recently described what the Iranians have been up to in Yemen for the past several years…

For the past four years the Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been smuggling weapons to the Houthis, as well as providing expert military training, with the result that the Shia Houthi militia finally succeeded in seizing control of the capital Sana’a last year, forcing the Western-backed president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to seek refuge in Aden.

Last week it was claimed that Tehran was increasing its support for the Houthis with the delivery of a 185 ton shipment of weapons and other military equipment.

This is how Iran likes to fight wars. They like to fund and arm proxy organizations that will do their fighting for them. That way they don’t have to get their hands messy or risk direct retaliation. Hezbollah is a prime example of this.

And the Iranians were winning in Yemen. In fact, they were on the verge of complete and total victory.

So the Saudis felt forced to step in. The Saudis don’t like to fight their own wars either, but in this instance they felt there was no other choice.

But let there be no misunderstanding. This is not a conflict between Saudi Arabia and some rebel group in Yemen. This is part of an ongoing war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and at this point relations between the two nations are at an all-time low…

“The Saudis were caught off guard by how quick and aggressive the Houthi offensive was and felt they needed a sharp and immediate response,” geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia group, told Business Insider over email. “They didn’t want Iran to think they needed Egypt or anyone else to come rescue the Kingdom. This is the worst tension we’ve seen between Iran and Saudi Arabia, period.”

And of course Yemen is far from the only front in this war.

For instance, Saudi-backed fighters “are poised for a massive battle” with Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters on the Syria-Lebanon border…

Islamist forces armed and aided by Saudi Arabia are poised for a massive battle in the coming days targeting the Syrian regime and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to WND.

The officials said the Saudis have directed the Islamist forces, including the Al Nusra Front, to lead an imminent counterinsurgency focusing on the Syria-Lebanon border, with particular emphasis on the Qalamoun region.

Qalamoun is a strategic site that serves as a supply line to Damascus from Lebanon. Control of the area would give the rebels a base of operations to target Damascus.

In the western media, this ongoing conflict is being characterized as a conflict between “good” Saudi Arabia and “evil” Iran.

But should we really be cheering on Saudi Arabia?

As I mentioned above, more funding for ISIS comes out of Saudi Arabia than anywhere else.

And ISIS also gets more support on social networks such as Twitter from Saudi Arabia than anywhere else…

Part of ISIS’s success is its adoption of social media as a way to spread the group’s messages and find new members. A study by The Independent analyzed the origin of posts supporting ISIS on Twitter, and found that Saudi Arabia provides by far the most.

If you believe that ISIS is wrong for beheading people, you should keep in mind that there is a beheading in Saudi Arabia every four days.

The truth is that ISIS is simply just copying what the Saudis have been doing for centuries.

And for writing what I just did, I could be sentenced to 1,000 lashes if I was living in Saudi Arabia. In fact, that is exactly what happened to one Saudi blogger. Another Saudi man was recently sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.

The Saudis don’t believe that it will happen tomorrow, but they are fully convinced that their version of Islam will eventually dominate every inch of our planet.

Are you ready to live like the Saudis do? In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive, religious police can drag you away at any time for any reason, and the penalty for smuggling a Bible is death.

If you are tempted to think that the Saudis do not plan to impose their rules on the rest of the world, you should consider what the top religious leader in the entire country recently had to say. Earlier this month, he declared that every single church on the entire Arabian Peninsula (not just Saudi Arabia) must be destroyed…

Saudi Arabia’s top Muslim cleric called on Tuesday for the destruction of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula after legislators in the Gulf state of Kuwait moved to pass laws banning the construction of religious sites associated with Christianity.

Speaking to a delegation in Kuwait, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, who serves as the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, said the destruction of churches was absolutely necessary and is required by Islamic law, Arabic media reported.

These are the “good guys”?

The truth is that the Saudis are not our friends. They like our money and they like our military might, and we make a convenient ally for them right now.

But what the Saudis stand for is the antithesis of everything that the United States is supposed to stand for. It is a brutally oppressive regime that is promoting tyranny all over the planet. Barack Obama may be comfortable with such “friends”, but the American people should not be.

So what do you think? Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment below…

Paul

Nothing to see here. Everything is awesome. Unemployment down to 5.5% in America. “Shadow of Crisis” has passed despite the fact 45 million Americans live in poverty.
Yours Truly,
Obama Phone Toting Wannabe
Catman

As long as we have a president who favors our enemies over our friends and our own citizens we are sunk. Due to our willful departure from God many years ago we have no right to expect his help. We are simply a piece of the divine puzzle that is needed for now and when we are no longer needed we will be destroyed or worse, subdued by the followers of Sharia law. If the Bible refers to us at all it is “Mystery Babylon”, and it turns out very poorly for them. To add a bit more pessimism, the vast majority of Americans do not even see what is going on, nor do they care to know. We are in a mess. Otherwise, things are great!
CRAT

I have no love for our present occupant in the Whire House, but fact is this country made a pact with the Saudis establishing the petrodollar back in the early 70’s. All administrations and Congresses since then have been in bed with the devil regarding the House of Saud.
- MichaelfromTheEconomicCollapse
  
  Very good point.
- Commandr Shepard
  
  And it would take a real leader to reinstate a gold backed dollar and get rid of the federal reserve…
- Georgiaboy61
  
  The petrodollar system lies at the root of much of the economic destruction and geopolitical mayhem perpetuated since that time. The petrodollar has been like crack to a cocaine addict, in how it has addicted successive U.S. governments to fiat money, gigantic amounts of debt and illusory economic growth. It has also given the Arabs a hand on the rudder steering our foreign policy – a position they have exploited to the full. Why do you think we have fought so many wars and had so many military engagements in the ME since the 1970s?
  When the House of Saud says “jump,” we have to jump, or they pull the plug on all of that cheap credit – not to mention the petrodollar system itself.
  This nation will not be capable of rebuilding any sort of real prosperity or a just-and-sane foreign policy – until the evil of the petrodollar is gone once and for all. While we’re at it, we should abolish the Fed, too, but that’s an argument for another time.
j lemurian

You’re worried about Saudi Arabia? We could wipe them off the face of the earth and they know it.
- True Grit
  
  But we won’t, and they’ll just keep picking away until we can’t.
  Then we’ll say “we should have”
  and our grand children will say “why didn’t you” and those who don’t care still won’t care.
- XSANDIEGOCA
  
  The Saudis have two trillions invested here in America. Like the Chinese it is a matter of who will drop who? Biggest Game of Texas Hold Em on the planet.
K

Interesting, just last week we misplaced 500 million in military aid It seems we lost track of it in Yemen. Want to guess who has it now.
- Guest
  
  That’s a tremendous amount of money, yet it’s just a rounding error by Washington’s standards. It reminds me of the saying attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
  - MichaelfromTheEconomicCollapse
    
    Very well said.
    - Mike Adams
      
      Indeed, Michal.
  - Jodie Lynn Gaeta
    
    Not just the money, but we keep arming our enemies.
Bill

“The Iranians like to use proxy organizations” as shown by the Iranian woman at 1600 who probably has a bearing on cia/isis proxy. Talk about a Trojan Horse—–
Rufus T Firefly

The religion of peace is at war once again
Paul

Pray for the best but prepare for the worst.
AS55423

Wait until Israel and the Saudis launch airstrikes on Iran.
- Evil_shadow
  
  You know that , then there is no frickin’ chance to avoid ww3.And falling of nukes all around the globe…
Mike Smithy

Everyone take a deep breath. Do you smell it? That’s freedom baby…just kidding.
Mike Adams

The Lord died for us before but now he’s alive but we can’t see him.
GetReal4U2

the prime minster of Israel was correct…Islamic “State”…Islamic “Republic”…It makes NO DIFFERENCE…Islam is the real issue…and no one wants to address it…Christians are being genocided out of the middle east…and the world remains silent about it…heck…our own government won’t even say the name of Islam…hmmm
GetReal4U2

oh and don’t forget…Yemen is the Obama standard of what our foreign policy should look like…even liberal arz abc news called them out on it…only to be told they think it’s successful…un…freakin’…real…
DesolateEarth

I sense a hot war on the horizon in the Middle East, it’ll be a war of civilizations, started by these sectarian tensions. ww3 between east and west fighting over geopolitical and economic interests in the gulf. Rember that Iran and Syria is supported by Russia, which is on the forefront of a proxy war with the US and the house of Saudi in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and now Yemen. This will be the final strike on the powder keg, I hope I’m not the only one who has seen this geopolitical suicide from a mile away (this is what happens when you fight and fund unnecessary wars in the Middle East).
- jaxon64
  
  No, this one is way out in the open– the US is backing the Sunni and monarchy countries like Saudi Arabia, Al Nusra/FSA in Syria, UAE, Kuwait, Aden, and existing govt in Yemen…and Russia backs existing govt in Syria, rebels in Yemen, Iran, Hezbollah/Lebanon…
  China has been less than neutral also, often selling arms and technology to the Iranian Shia side but still purchasing some oil from the Saudi’s ( although more oil contracts have also been going to Russia.)
  Wouldn’t surprise me if these proxy wars eventually draw direct conflict among the big boys– and China can field a 200 million man army and send them by land into the middle east–let that sink in for a while…
  All kinds of scenarios and 99% of them end really bad for the human race……
VigilanteCaregiver

We have more raw materials and energy stores within our own borders ($120 trillion in raw materials alone, might’ve gone up in price). We have plenty of renewable commodities. The Good Lord gave us a land of great promise. And we hired traitors, radicals, & insurrectionists.

I’m gonna wait this out. The American people decided they wanted all this – they can have it.
- alan
  
  Technically God gave it to the Indians and we stole it from them.
  - VigilanteCaregiver
    
    And the indians stole it from the Freemont’s and Anasazi. Conquest is in everyone’s history. What’s you’re point?
    
    Oh yes; I’m evil, you’re compassionate. Yay for you. Unless you have documented evidence that I, personally, or my wife and kids, are conquering the rightful property of another, then level your accusations against someone who really is.
Genada

Morals are not something that comes into play very often in our policy foreign or domestic. It’s all about power and money now. Find a conflict and look behind it a bit and you can track it back to money.

All our elected “public” servants are worth millions that they made while working for the government. Being in high level government is nothing more now then a chance to loot the system, which all most everyone is doing.

The saddest part about all this is that all of it is so common now. The wars, the looting, the lying, the stealing that people no longer even notice or care, it’s expected and accepted.
- XSANDIEGOCA
  
  In Mexico, it is accepted practice and well understood that El Presidente will leave office after six years as one of the wealthiest men in the country. We are a long, long way from Harry Truman.
- T.
  
  I disagree with one very important part of your comment. “Being in high level government is nothing more than a chance to loot the system”….. They are “Paid Off” by Those who actually Own the System and are Looting Their System (World Financial System) to the tune of Trillions of $’s. The Owners of the System MUST also Own these “public” servants in order for them “To Loot The System and Not Be PROSECUTED.” This is the way things “Work” in our Brave New World which They Plan on SOON bringing DOWN – All under Their CONTROL.
- Orac4Prez
  
  Making Money = morally right. Making lots of money for the elite = morally righteous. If your enemy is making money = morally bankrupt! Lose money = moral nightmare Repeat…
victor

What stuns me the most, is Americans wanting to join these islamist groups to fight overseas, or to kill or damage here in the U.S.
I guess because we never were faced with this problem, or the extent we see and hear about today.
I was thinking and told myself jihad Johnny is already in a city near You. It was a joke to myself, but the sad part about it, it’s most likely true.
Fort Hood, the Boston bombings, that guy killing coworker for not turning to islam, in Washington, to name a few.
As a Christian, I would never denounce my faith.
I believe in Jesus Christ, and the promise of eternal life, thru the power of the Cross and His Sacrifice for us.
So in their eyes, I’m an infidel, worthy of death in their eyes. So be it. Would never convert.
Yes the middle east is getting crazier and more unpredictable, then we can throw in Russia and China into the mix later in time and see what we will really have.
Then we have what we got going on in our own backyard here, with the politicians, social issues, wall street, employment and we can’t forget our debt the nation is in because of these self serving clowns. No wait, maybe we are really the clowns, and the politicians, NWO, wall street enjoy laughing at us.
Thank God, he has warned us of the days ahead.
We need not fear in Him…Walk in faith….
- XSANDIEGOCA
  
  Things are going to get very exciting here in America.
alan

We have managed to almost get a world war going between about 20 countries. North Africa is next very soon.

So who wins? MIC with weapon sales and bankers with reconstruction loans and our industry because everyone else will be bombed into the dirt.

As long as we sit on the side lines stoking it we will be fine.
This is exactly what we did in WW2.
Horiboyable .

I view any religion as a form of mental illness. My imaginary friend agrees
- gfmucci
  
  And indeed it takes an imaginary friend to hold that view.
CollapsingWorld

Saudi Arabia and Iran are doing what US and other countries used to do earlier on a smaller scale. it is just that Middle East is awash with the last dregs of cheap conventional oil and so their actions will have global implications.
And no way can Shia Iran be compared to Sunni Saudi Arabia. The followers of shia sect are far better than the followers of Sunni sect.
- Richard O. Mann
  
  A rock is a rock is a rock.
  - Evil_shadow
    
    True, but Iran had potential to become “most democaratic islam led country” until Brits and Us wanted their oil wells.Im trying to get my head around fact waht would happen if there wouldnt be overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953…What was outcome of coup? rise of fanatical clergy in mid 1979 and eternal hatred of anything that has even fait smell of west.Can you blame them?
    - T.
      
      We (Americans) demonize any Arab/Muslim country when it suits the Neocons (who run our country) purpose. We take them down When it suits us. Look Pakistan (Muslim) has nukes for decades and they have not been demonized yet. Why? Firstly, they Do Not Have Any OIL. Secondly, Israel stole our nuclear secrets decades ago (Jonathan Pollard – should have been executed&wasn’t) and has had one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world for years. Of course, that is Okay, because that’s Israel. They can lie, steal; kill (shot up the USS Liberty killing almost 100 U.S. sailors) and do any Treacherous act they want to, because that’s Israel. So, all Muslim people are devils and all Israelis are saints? Where is the Truth and Justice in that?
      - MEP325
        
        I agree with you 100%.
      - MEP325
        
        There’s a lot more going on here with this Iran issue. The controlled media spews propoganda about Iran, just like it did about Saddam in the early 2000s. Turned out it was all lies and that’s why I don’t believe the propoganda about Iran. There isn’t any credible evidence to suggest they would be an existential threat to anyone if they acquired a bomb. But FOX news and these other news outlets continue the propoganda, shaping the minds of the sheeple.
        
        My feeling is Iran is acting in self-defense to constant western aggression in that region.
      - jsmith
        
        You are one of the few that understands the situation to a tee! You must be an anti- you know who like me!
      - T.
        
        As a Christian, I am anti sin and anti crime – No matter who commits the acts. My Father is also against all such sin and crime. His holy word is full of His hatred for sin and crime and He has No favorites that He gives a “pass” to on the matter. His Son, my Lord Jesus Christ had to die on a cross for all such sin and crime – That men might have an opportunity to repent of their individual and personal sin and be saved from the penalty of their sin – HELL. That goes for ALL men – No Exceptions “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 in God’s holy word, the bible says. Have you been saved?
selaretus

“This is how Iran likes to fight wars. They like to fund and arm proxy organizations that will do their fighting for them. That way they don’t have to get their hands messy or risk direct retaliation. Hezbollah is a prime example of this.”

Gee willikers, this sounds like another country I know. I won’t mention names but the initials are USA
Rukander

And the good guys…enjoying the killing?
XSANDIEGOCA

If you look at the map, you see the Saudis are being encircled by Iranian proxies. Acess to the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal may soon fall under Iranian control. In 1970, Nixon traded the Gold Backed Dollar for the Petro Dollar joining the Saudis and the US at the hip. There is a way out. Energy Independence. We shall have to wait for Mullah Obama to pass on before we can do this. The next 22 months promise to be most exciting. Are we having fun yet?
- K2
  
  Saudi and iran are equally strong or equally week. I doubt suez or persian gulf will fall to iran. They will just fight each other until years.
  - XSANDIEGOCA
    
    As long as the fighting is contained there, no problem.
- Commandr Shepard
  
  1971
  - XSANDIEGOCA
    
    I stand corrected.
- Orac4Prez
  
  Why only 22 months? All Obama needs is a small “crisis” and he’ll claim (reluctantly) Special Executive powers to stop the next election while he deals with the problems.
  - ItIsWell
    
    I look for him to be next US representative to the United Nations so he can continue to spread his “peace plans”. He won’t ever go away.
    - XSANDIEGOCA
      
      Never.
  - XSANDIEGOCA
    
    You are correct. I was just speaking in general terms. The enemies of this country are going to make their move before he leaves office, if he leaves office.
- Georgiaboy61
  
  Re: “If you look at the map, you see the Saudis are being encircled by Iranian proxies.”
  
  It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people! (sarcasm/off)
  Seriously, the House of Saud deserves whatever fate befalls it – probably worse. They have been exporting terrorism and jihad around the globe for the last fifty years (some would argue much longer than that) and causing no end of trouble. If you are fishing for sympathy for them, you won’t find it here.
  - XSANDIEGOCA
    
    Not seeking any at all. Unfortunately, after Nixon took us off the Gold Standard and went to China, this country got in bed with the Shieks and the PetroDollar. Word has it the Sauds have two Trilllions invested in us and all manner of secret protocols that we will defend them. If the conflict were restricted to that part of the World I would agree with you wholeheartedly. The Sauds will call in their markers, however, and being the good little lap dogs we have become we shall probably defend them. The way around this, of course, is a realization that Globalization is a Kroc and Energy Independence is nirvana. We shall have to wait for someone after Mullah Obama to realize this.
SunnyFlaSnotress

Bad guy vs Bad guy = less Bad guy
Look at the bright side Mike, if those terribly chauvinistic Saudis take over the world, THEY will appreciate all your “men-at-work” statistics.. provided that they don’t behead you and all Christians first.
Personally, though I wouldn’t find the lifestyle appealing, I find some of their justice system swiftly refreshing. Quick executions of rapists etc.
gfmucci

This is the one (unintended) positive I can think of about Obama. He has minimized our acting as referee to a bunch of psychotic animals. But then, his strategic absence brought much of this about. We (Obama administration, progressives, media, academia) continue to dismiss Islam as the motivating ideology that makes all this cr-p possible.
- jox
  
  This has nothing to do with Islam. There has always been wars, in Asia, Africa, North America, and most of them in Europe. This war is not different than others.
  - gfmucci
    
    Islam has motivated aggression in the Middle East for 1400 years. To say it has nothing to do with Islam sounds like the Obama administration: Goofy. Supremacism and aggression are key components of Islamic doctrine. And don’t forget the motivating power of the Sunni/Shia differences. Islam is responsible for more acts of terror in this current decade than all other ideologies combined.
    - jox
      
      Are you kidding? USA has killed more than 4000 people only with drones. You can add 500.000 in Irak if you wish. Well, you don’t count THAT as terrorism because those deaths don’t happen in your country.
      
      And if you want to talk about history, I remind you that wars between christians have happened until very recently, or christians against muslims. So accusing of aggresion to muslims is ignoring our own history.
      - gfmucci
        
        It must be therapeutic for you to talk about the past, whether 50 years ago or 1,000 years ago. I am speaking of the present.
        
        By the way, the Crusades were FINALLY in response to 400 years of brutal Islamic conquests through out Middle East Christian communities, North Africa and parts of Europe. Europe and Christianity finally woke up and responded.
        
        The Christian reformation to a more fundamental ideology of grace, tolerance, and forgiveness became the prominent Christian doctrine. Christianity civilized itself.
        
        In Islam, the opposite is the case. Islamic reformation insists on “reforming” back to Islamic fundamentals as Muhammad taught: intolerance, supremacy, violent jihad. The more devout a Muslim, the more he supports those characteristics. Islam is de-civilizing itself. Its fundamental doctrines demand it.
        
        Too many people excuse psychotic behavior among Muslims (due to their Islamic doctrine) in the name of “moral equivalency” by saying Christians did it 1,000 years ago so don’t criticize the Muslims. That ignores the current problem.
      - jox
        
        100% agree with you. But take into account that occident (well, USA actually) have attacked Libya, Iraq, Egypt (promoting a coup), Afghanistan, Iran, don’t help Palestina, drones in Pakistan and Yemen, etc, etc. I mean, most muslims feel there is an aggression from occident, and to some point they are right.
jakartaman

Muslims are not our friends no matter where they are.
There is no such thing as moderate muslims.
What you are seeing in the middle east now is the true followers of Islam. “moderate Muslims are not true muslims.
Another point that pleases me no end is that Saudi and Egypt did not give Barry a heads up. This is the start of a sunni/shia civil war in the Middle east. Barry is allowing shia to have a nuke’s – you can bet the sunni’s will get one.
- Evil_shadow
  
  they have nukes already.Saudi arabia owns half of the nukes that are stationed in pakistan (in exchange they are modernizing their army though SA-pakistan military pact). But do you really expect that Iran would be stupid enough to be the one who started nuclear war? i dont think so.They are fanatics, but they are not STUPID. I couldnt say that for “developed west”…
- Georgiaboy61
  
  Re: “Barry is allowing shia to have a nuke’s – you can bet the sunni’s will get one.”
  
  The Sunnis were the first to get an “Islamic bomb,” namely in Pakistan – which is where the Saudis are now shopping for atomic weapons of their own.
Black

Bad guys vs. bad guys and the good ole US of A selling weapons to both. The business of death and destruction is good!
- SunnyFlaSnotress
  
  Your tax dollars hard at work.
Richard O. Mann

Maybe the Sunni and Shi’ite and other branches if Islam will kill each other off in this war of evil verses evil. They would be doing the world a big favor.
- Black
  
  as long as they kill the pedophile cathoilics and the the crooked joos while theyre at it
  - Richard O. Mann
    
    Don’t forget all the blacks, whites, and any and all people on the earth. Just think how peaceful it will be with no people on the earth.
- Evil_shadow
  
  AFAIK, suunis would win quite easy;afterall shiite are minorty amongst islam clergy.Like 90% of all muslims are sunnis…bad for Iran, syria and quatar…
  - T.
    
    I think you got that backwards. I think sunnis are the minority.
Richard O. Mann

Don’t think this was mentioned, but the Saudis are paying for just about every Mosque being built in the US. Now, what does that tell you?
- SunnyFlaSnotress
  
  I should go into Mosque design.
  - http://www.coroflot.com/joelpeeters/portfolio Joel Peeters
    
    ROFL
    - Tatiana Covington
      
      Mickey Mosque?
  - 1politicalcrook1
    
    If you do you might be President someday!
  - Sam
    
    Design them to resemble the rat hole toilet that they are, you know murdering oppressive pediphile hives straight from hell – in this way, at least, one honest outward thing about the anti-religion that will be visually apparent immediately so that no one can lie about it, not their over seas financiers or their idiotic followers
  - Luca Rivera
    
    Make sure you have a muscular, it makes being on your knees more fun.
- Orac4Prez
  
  Wow! Think of all those wonderful investments. In a few years they wont have to send hijackers to the US! Much more cost effective to have them “Made in the USA”. I wonder how many “rounds” you can store in a Muslim Cultural Center!
  - kfilly
    
    The don’t have to store any rounds as they use IED’s and suicide bombers as their weapons of choice.
- Georgiaboy61
  
  The Sunni Arabs are the driving force behind the so-called “civilizational jihad” being waged against not only the west, but against the entire civilized world. They are doing their best to disguise that fact, but the evidence – and the trail of violence, bloodshed and mayhem which follows Islam wherever it goes – tells a very different story.
jox

“the Iranians are very honest about the fact that they view us as an enemy, and they plan to impose their version of radical Shia Islam worldwide as soon as they can”. Not true. Actually is USA wich is always attacking Iran.
jox

Saudi is a brutal and feudal regime, while Iranian is far advanced and cultivated. American media is completely biased. What a surprise.
Cal Wayback

WARNING:
Danger…The End Days will soon start. The Born Again Christians will leave and the tribulation will begin.
chriscas

I wish Mohammed had never been born! He’s done more damage to humanity than Judas! And I can say that here without getting scourged to death, at least for a while longer…..
- DVG
  
  Islam is Lucifer’s child.
  - Commandr Shepard
    
    all 3 religions are complete trash.
  - Evil_shadow
    
    So is chirstianity and judaism (as we know it today)
    
    .You blame one religion as being root of all evil, but neglect the fact that predominant religion in west is far from being innocent.Witch hunt was quite popular in early 10th century and last quite a few centuries.Wasnt RKC that was spreading “one and only right religion” with sword and flame throughout the europe and killing everyone who didnt want to bow to their deception? In the ned it wont matter; all religions are the same.All of them are exploiting their followers, brainwashing them as they see fit, repurpose them for their thralls and put into high positions as their proxies. Faith? no problem. religion, led by psychopats and fanatics? HELL NO !
elmcqueen3

To use the Democrats most common phrase…”Common sense”… should have told us the Saudi’s were and are not our friends when 15 out of the 19 hijackers who took down the twin towers in New York City were Saudi Nationals….We were bamboozeled by the Bush administration not much different than we are now being bamboozeled by the Obama administration…This is how the New World Order achieves it’s agenda to rule the world by “hook and crook”, double speak, double cross and continuous wars no thanks to the military industrial complex which profits mightily from distributing war goods to our friends and foes alike.
- Michael P
  
  Dumbass, we did that!! Not the Saudi’s. Where have you been for the last decade?
jammin

They want Islam to take over the world? That is sensationalist. I think their primary focus is being able to run their own affairs in their own countries without interference from the U.S. government.
- jakartaman
  
  Wrong
- http://ttstblog.blogspot.Com/ Really20
  
  Definitely does not apply in the case of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. It is only the Western oil wealth and the Haj pilgrimage that give them any global relevance whatsoever.
retired22

Some of these comments are all over the place.
The fact is this is not a morality play,there is a big difference between The Gulf Sunni Arabs & Iran.This big difference is the Shiite Iranian leaders are whacked out maniacs & the Sunni leaders are just garden variety tyrants.Remember this,without Joe Stalin & the Red Army we would have lost WW2.We don’t need to love them but we need to deal with them.The fact is that our fearless leader in Washington,Obama,is doing all he can to insure that the whole middle east goes up in flames!Iran is an aggressive & expansionist power,Saudi Arabia,as despotic as it is,is not expansionist & can be dealt with in a peaceful way! There wouldn’t be open warfare if the Arabs weren’t spooked by the idea of a nuclear armed Iran.A nuclear armed Iran which Obama is hell bent on creating!This will not bring peace,rather the opposite.the Sunni Arabs will go all out to destroy Iran before it can go nuclear!
- DVG
  
  BS. We would have won anyway. It would only have been a longer struggle.
  - retired22
    
    Yeah,with another 500,000 casualties.I am not trying to Glorify Joe Stalin & the Soviet Police State.Our needs coincided at the time and that was what counted
- jox
  
  “whacked out maniacs”??? My god, is terrible the effect of american propaganda in the minds of the people
  - retired22
    
    Listen strap I am 72 years old & I have seen a lot & learned a lot over the years & I don’t need a history lesson from a young shmuck like you! As for Propaganda,American or otherwise,you insult me by implying that I draw my opinions from the MSM propaganda rags! I know what I know from a long life of investigating what I read & see,from all sorts of varied sources!
    - Georgiaboy61
      
      If you believe that the Saudis, Qataris, etc. are our friends and allies, then maybe you ought to go look at footage of the 9-11 attacks again. Al-Qaeda didn’t originate in Iran and its founder wasn’t a Shi’ite. Bin Laden was a Saudi and so were most of the 9-11 operatives. The 9-11 Report contained extensively redacted sections which are now known to have directly-implicated the Saudi royal family and government in the attacks.
      The Sunni Arab gulf states have spent billions over the last fifty years exporting terrorism and jihad to the non-Muslim world. Are these the actions of a friend or an ally? These butchers are the enemies of civilization, pure and simple. No amount of neocon propaganda or disinformation will change that fact.
      It is beyond foolish that we are involving ourselves in the unfolding Sunni-Shi’ite conflict/civil war in the Middle East – but then, no one ever went broke betting on the intelligence of our leaders – or the people who elect them.
    - jox
      
      Getting old doesn’t make you wiser or more experienced, but certainly makes you grumpier.
- VigilanteCaregiver
  
  Comments all over the place? Very much so. Remember when I first came here a few years ago; a lot of good hearted, accepting folks and screwball welfare junkie. Now, it seems like only trolls, propagandists, and psychopaths with a few good folks for garnish.
  
  I like your comments – keep it up!
- Meme
  
  Just remember who attacked America in 2001
Jay

It’s all good. The only real ,allie in the region Isreal just gets stepped on. We have a leader whose Momma Rasputin is an Iranian. Nobody in the world trusts us. This is not going to end well for us.
http://www.coroflot.com/joelpeeters/portfolio Joel Peeters

Was wondering when I would read a comment against the Israelis in this thread… has not been too long before reading a comment again against them…

Not withstanding the fact that those same Israelis (the bad guy as you tend to imply) appear before Congress not to be against the President, but to warn that same President, and all the Political parties in the US, about what is going on in the region, and avoid helping the enemy of the US itself.

You really think that a country of 6 millions people would be able to stand alone against 1 Billions Muslim (10 percent of them at least being anti-Israelis)? Is it not normal for a tiny country like Israel to look for the strongest ally possible to have a balance in the region. Any logical military thinking would agree with the Israelis to look for the US to back them up. Also they are the ONLY democracy in the region, they don’t behead Christians or Muslim for not believing in Judaism. They don’t enforce Judaism on other race or ethnic groups – and although I personally do not condone it they even accept gay and lesbian behavior (try to find that in the surrounding area), You have free business opportunity, free speech, etc

But of course the Palestinians are the good guys, and houlala those wicked Israelis – how dare they defend their tiny country against millions who wants them exterminated. (sarcasm)

Belgium (Europe), Luxembourg (Europe), and other countries rely heavily on NATO (aka USA) to back them up because of their size. That is one of the lessons of WW2 and other wars, against mighty powers you need an another massive power to counter-act.
AntonioOssa

GOOD TIME FOR THE U.S. TO PULL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND LET THE CARDS FALL WHERE THEY MAY!
- kfilly
  
  You probably don’t understand how the Petrodollar scam works. If the U.S. pulls out of the Middle East those countries will be able to sell their oil in any currency they want. The U.S. dollar will collapse as their will be no demand for it as countries would not be forced to stockpile U.S. Dollars to buy oil. It is all about control over resources and the power it brings.
  - rushmore
    
    Let her rip!!
billybob

Good article…
nekksys

Three words: Glass Parking Lot…

I think that sums it up quite well…
Evil_shadow

“This is how Iran likes to fight wars. They like to fund and arm proxy
organizations that will do their fighting for them. That way they don’t
have to get their hands messy or risk direct retaliation. Hezbollah is
a prime example of this.”

I wonder why this reminds me on US, Russia, china, Eu…Ukraine is PROXY war between east and west, disregarding any cultural and historical ties with russia.Blaming Iran but not acknowledge that your own country does the same thing is just wrong.Even IF Iran admits that they are using hezbollah and Quds forces against sunni’s, will US admit that they are using saudi arabia( or is it right oposite?) for expanding their influence in middle east? Also, as far as Iranian’s clergy is fanatical, they WONT mount any attack on israel or US or Eu at all.Fanatical yes, stupid? Not AT ALL.Would you risk lives of 80 millions of people just for your own twisted dreams?
Commandr Shepard

Sky fairy be causin’ trouble again! He loves to watch us dance for him!
L_W

None of them are our friends.

None of them can be trusted and would sooner slit our throats than not … after, of course, we send them boatloads of money, weapons, and “training”. They are pragmatic I’ll give them that.

We are just idiots.
jox

Lets see if I understand: If some rebels fight with the government of Syria, they are ‘freedom fighters’ and the US provides them money and arms. The same happens in Ukrania: the rebels againts the government were ‘heros’ and the coup was accepted (actually promoted) by US.

AND the opposite: if a country bombs or invades another one, is suject of sanctions or even a military campaign of the UN, as happened with Irak invading Kuwait.

BUT when all this happen in a country that is allied of US, then everything is reversed: rebels are terrorists, and the invasion is good. OK americans, do whatever you want with your military empire, BUT don’t pretend to be the ‘good’ ones and don’t pretend to be ‘the police of the world’, but the bully of the world.
Tatiana Covington

Let them kill each other.
Fee-fi-fo-fum

The Saudi royals are Jew converts to Islam. They can get along with the Jews and Israel, they are willing to pay mercenaries to kill for more and greater wealth and they don’t like to share with their own country men. Just like Jews.
MEP325

Maybe Iran dislikes the west because it has been meddling in that part of the world for a long time. Like in 1953, when the CIA conducted a coup in Iran by ousting democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq because he wanted to nationalize the oil drilling that was going on in his country by British oil companies.

We might be a little annoyed if a foreign country did that here. I have a hard time believing these countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran are pushing for a global Islamic state. Just doesn’t make sense to me. In their own regions, yes. But even brutal Muslim dictators have enough sense to know they do not have the means to Islamify the whole world. That’s an impossible and unrealistic task.

The propoganda agaainst Iran is at an all time high because Iran is in the crosshairs of the west.
Priszilla

Never mind, as long as we can sell weapons to either side everything is fine.
riftcliff

Well, then the fight is between bad guys against worst guys.
hay kel

both (Saudi/Sunni/ISIS vs Iran/Syiah/Ahlulbait) have been controlled by antichrist, he wants the destruction of the Arab nation and raise up pax judaica. Pure of Islam can destroy saudi after pax judaica era have been finished (after his mission completed).

source:islamic eschatology
chilller

The US is the master of fighting proxy wars….and are doing it to this day.
- jox
  
  proxy wars, actual wars, coups, colour revolutions, … US is the master in every kind of war.
1politicalcrook1

NOT US of A, I cannot stand when people do not put credit where credit is due. The PEOPLE of the US of A do not want this going on. It is OUR CORRUPT Politicians AND Banksters that want it.
JailBanksters

It’s a good thing you highlighted where it is on the Map otherwise Americans would have No Idea where they have to bomb next. But I can see them asking, what’s that big Island thingy to the left of it.
Bill

Are you saving more now than in the last 2 years?
GSOB

Put Another Record On –

Genesis
Pete

Rag-head vs. rag-head.

Have at it, boys.
Luca Rivera

Most of the general public in “America” do not realize their days of using their International-never-pay-charge-card are numbered. They think it is magic fairy dust that creates the wealth necessary to carry out “America’s” never ending attacks. They do not realize that $20,000,000,000,000 in debt, is going to be paid back by them. Through a continued decline in their standard of living; loss of basic principles of law and serfdom. Right now “Americas” destruction of one country after another is a TV moment. Soon however they will be watching themselves participating in a sorrowful drama.
JaabirTheAmerican

Please explain to me what does Islam have to do with the “Economic Collapse.” What credentials does the author have in regards to speaking on Islam and Sharia Law? Has he ever studied Islam? Does he know any Muslims? Would you all listen to a 12 year old discuss politics just after one year of Political Science? It beats me how a subject as vast as Islam and Sharia Law gets condensed to constant beheadings. How can this man say Isis and Saudi are the same when Saudi has time again condemned them and Isis declares the Saudi government as non-Muslim? I’m convinced the author is no more than a misinformed Christian posing as a journalist. Americans are known for stereotyping. We did it with the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. I don’t see where people get such false info. Saudi funds all American mosque? That’s absolutely ridiculous and has no evidence to support it. The rumors that are spread about Islam are utterly ridiculous
http://Silbershark110.wordpress.com/ Silbershark110

The Bad is saudi, The Good is The Houthis, Yemen for yemeni, Saudi-Wahabi-terrorists, Raus !!!
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