Like some Central Asian conqueror of Old, Obama eyes the Middle East. Where to put his efforts? and to ask - or tell - who, what, to get the momentum back.
True commitment to peace would of course demand cessation of terrorist capers by the Arabs and the roll back of Jewish settlements outside Israel. It's a land grab. Why the USA should condone it is pledging a callous, willful ignorance.
Syria needs to be brought in and Obama should be able to mouth apologies for recent armed incursions, driving Israel and Syria like sheep on the fold.(i.e., the Golan)
into a place wherein the ancestors descend and bid peace and mutual respect and a trust just as the border betwixt them has been so calm, so calm, with fruit passing through the checkpoints at Qunetra - why not just claim what already exists? Cannot Israel give up the Golan for an open Syria?
Turkey will surrender territory to the PKK as winter snow set in.
Iraq is sorting out a mountain of issues, ranging from re-admitting property holders to their original homes, to apportioning oil profits, to dicking with the US over a total American pullout. In order for Iraq to consolidate itself, the Americans must basically disappear.
Iran gets its financial wings cut off as the price for oil falls by half. No more carte blanche for Hizbullah. Ahmedinajad is fighting for his political life as the Persian know-nothings find themselves pinned down by nationalist ideology. The processing of Uranian continues, now with soem 6,500 centrefuges spinning.
Afghanistan bleeds again from its many wounds. If Obama lets the scheduled deployment of three US army briageds go through, then the Taliban better lay low. Pakistan is rolling up their village enclaves and terrorist teaching schools, finally, from Bajur to South Waziristan.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Close in Efforts
Don't let the Middle East (or Texas) colonize your head, or determine whether you're warm, or mobile, well fed. What you don't know will kill you.
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