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Fine, Gulf guys. Go ahead and fight your own battles against ISIS.
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It is a certainty if you ignore, close your eyes, cover your ears and sing LA LA LA LA really really loud, all concerns and issues will go away or settle themselves.
If they all think Iran is a destabilizing factor in the Middle East perhaps they should police their own, Frankly I think Netanyahoo is a bigger threat, please refer to paragraph #1.
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For too long, the US has had a de facto Sunni foreign policy. However, it is time to take a more balanced view given that all of the major terrorist and national security threats that the US faces, including al Qaeda, Dash, Taliban, Boko haram, al Shabab, Laskhar e Taiba and others, are fomented, funded and fueled by authoritarian Wahabbi sunni countries.
It might also be a good time to create a pan-Islamic principality to administer the supposed holy sites of mecca and medina. It should be handed over to a democratic authority that represents all sects of Islam ranging from the Shia, Sunni, Khwarij, Ahmaddiya, Sufi and Nation of Islam. The mecca authority should be modeled on the vatican and it should include men and women of peace and faith from all walks of islam across the world.
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With friends like these . . .
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… who needs enemas!
They all feared Iraq and needed the U.S.; but since George W. Bush was dumb enough to lie us into a war and defeat Iraq, they don’t need us anymore.
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I was wondering how many of them absentees are democratically elected? How many practice monogamy? How many practice Sharia law?
What’s really spooking these autocrats is the boom in alternate energy and the increased oil and gas production in the United States.
I thought they were just butthurt that Obama wouldn’t sign us on for another big martial Middle Eastern adventure (i.e., Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran) on their behalf, even though the whole funding-Al Qaeda-through-backchannels unpleasantness…