This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Middle-East 'Frenemies'
The enemy of your enemy is your... frenemy; and so it is across the Middle East as the WSJ notes the spread of The Islamic State has united many parties once at odds with each other to become 'strange bedfellows'.
Strange Bedfellows
Parties that display friction or outright aggression toward one another are finding themselves aligned in a desire to counter Islamic State.
Groups of colored lines between parties represent shared interests.
U.S. and Iran
The U.S. and Iran share an interest in fostering an Iraqi government strong enough to fend off Islamic State.
U.S. and Syria
The U.S. and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad share an interest in quashing Islamic State in Syria, even if the regime appears to put a higher priority on fighting other rebel groups.
Israel and Egypt
Israel and Egypt have come together to oppose Hamas, and they now have a similar long-term interest to do the same in confronting Islamic State.
Syria, Kurds, Turkey and Iraq
Turkey and Syria, long fearful of building up the region’s Kurds, have a shared interest in building up the Kurdish Peshmerga to combat a more immediate threat, Islamic State. Iraq has acquiesced.
Turkey and Qatar
Turkey and Qatar suddenly have a shared interest in keeping the Islamist movement they separately helped foster in check before Islamic State absorbs and consolidates it.
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
Saudi Arabia supported Sunnis in Iraq while Iran supported Shiites. They now have an interest in aiding the Shiite-led Iraq government to counter a common threat.
U.S., China and Russia
Russia and China have plenty of disputes with the U.S., but they agree that, as big powers, they are threatened in similar fashion by the expansionist Islamic extremism of Islamic State.
U.S., Egypt, Qatar and Turkey
Egypt’s military ruler sees Qatar, Turkey and the U.S. as hostile to his suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood. They all now fear Islamic State will consolidate the Islamic threat.
U.S. and al Qaeda
The greatest odd bedfellow of all: Islamic State threatens al Qaeda as well as the West, meaning that, in fact, al Qaeda and the U.S. now have a shared enemy.
»
- 18790 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
US & Al Qaeda: BFF's Forever!
(Apparently false) London terror rumor spreads across social media
http://tinyurl.com/pwddp4q
She looks better with Magoo glasses
Please cover her back up with the seven veils.Hard to believe hootchie mama danced her way into the hearts of all those Slams,enticing them into the fatal Arab Spring - further disrupting what fragile order existed.
Must be the holiday. WB7 only added nail polish to that photo.
No link between US and Israel?
Yeah, right. LMAO.
The best way to understand this diagram requires two steps:
First is to picture the 'american' symbol for Vichy DC with the symbol for Israel (somewhat smaller, providing teh 'stealth' properties) partially overlapping it at the top.
Second, the 'american' symbol for Vichy DC should be at the center of the circle, and the lines between it and the symbols forming the circle should alternate between friend and enemy at a high (and seemingly random) rate.
MOAR COWBELL!
That diagram doesn't even begin to cut it.
Lets see one with who is funding who ,and not what they say in public.
Then a chart showing whose grandfather ,shafted whose grandfatther, over a
used camel deal. Then another for the tribes.
People study the MENA for decades, and never truly understand the dynamics.
That diagram doesn't even begin to cut it.
Every single 'alliance' is based on fear of ISIS.
The WSJ prints lots of charts, why'd ZH choose this one?
And I'm pretty sure that shit started after granddad diddled dudes grandma.
do you NOT think its funny these bastards start fighting and crude oil looks like its about to rally 10 points. Maybe more see here => http://bit.ly/1fMcakI
These are some intersting times we are living in, I asked my dad if he remembered all this terrorist stuff when he was a 20 year old, and he said they were more worried about other crap tha didnt matter. He is scared where all this shit will end up, however again I think it sall over OIL.
Techinically oil looks good, and worth a LONG trade soon-ish.
Everyone hates everyone, smiling into your face but have a knife in case you show your back. Tribes, families, like Al Thani in Qatar, Al Nahyan in UAE, house of Saud in KSA and dozens if not hundreds of others that have relative influence are intermarried and interconnected and competing at the same time. But see, that would require actual knowledge of the region well beyond what could be found in open sources. I bet for the majority it's more than enough, 90% of Americans wouldn't point to the right region of the globe if asked about the location of any of those countries.
They don't share a peer friendship they have a master-slave relationship.
The graphic shows links between entities that are normally enemies....since the US and Israel are not normally enemies I recommend Kirk goes back to sleep.
Why even reprint this tripe from the WSJ?
Kabuki Theatre of the Absurd.
WSJ seems to have the same degree of low quality fiction as the NYT.
Turkey provides the bases of operation and supply lines for the "moderate"* Syrian** "freedom fighters"*** and yet there is a green line between Turkey and Syria?
Kind of hard to imagine that Syria isn't at least slightly disgruntled about that.
*currently in pre-ISIS enrollment stage while undergoing US-sponsored training
**mostly not Syrian
***retarded criminal rodents
In other words, ISIS has done what no one else could do. United the world. Krugman was wrong. We don't need aliens to unite us----just an ultra crazy will do.
Isis will unite the middle east. The US will unite the world.
ISIS applies for NATO membership.
You know it is only a matter of time. It's probably on the agenda for discussion at the upcoming NATO summit in Prisoner Village, Wales.
An abbreviated extract from Skousens World Affairs Brief:
ISIS AS THE NEW FLAGSHIP TERROR THREAT Whenever a relatively new terror organization starts bragging about how it’s going to take over the entire Muslim world, and simultaneously threatens Jerusalem, Europe and the US, you can bet it’s either the work of an irrational braggart or a propaganda stunt by Western intelligence agencies to give new urgency to the flagging and phony war on terror that has for so long held the West in its Machiavellian grip. Their claims are so far-fetched that they could only be useful at spreading fear among the British and American people who are once again being called upon to support a new war on terror. There is another specific reason, however, for western funding ISIS as a new enemy—it gives the US its long-awaited excuse to get back into the Syrian conflict, and it won’t be to “help Assad” or get rid of ISIS... ....The ultimate US objective in Syria is to remove Bashar al Assad and topple his pro-Russian government so that Israel can finally get the green light to attack Iran without fear of Syrian missile retaliation. In some way the US is conniving to use the need to attack ISIS in Syria as a path toward controlling Syria and taking down Assad..... Every two or three months, former VP Dick Cheney keeps warning about another terror attack. He’s one of the few in the Bush administration for whom we have definitive evidence of his involvement in allowing the Pentagon attack to proceed without a shoot-down. That makes him a particularly evil insider.In 2009 and again twice this year on January 24 and July 15, Cheney repeated his warning that America must “be prepared” for another terrorist attack in the United States and that it could be as bad as 9/11. That may well be a self-fulling prophecy by our own dark side of government.
If it happens, it won’t be by ISIS. Government operatives are the only ones who carry out high profile and complex terror attacks in this country, and it is probably time for another one as the American public becomes more apathetic each year about the drumbeat for war. Another telling factor is that Britain just raised the terror threat to “Severe.” Something’s up....
...The phony Twitter text supposedly says, “A message from ISIS to US: We are in your state, We are in your cities, We are in your streets. You are our goals anywhere.” The only way that could be true was for terrorists to cross the open border between the US and Mexico—which could easily be happening almost daily—but it isn’t happening we should be asking, Why?
I’ll tell you why: Terror is controlled. If it were allowed to happen and we had a rash of real terror events (the minor ones common to Israel, like suicide bombers in malls or car bombs) there would be a hue and cry from the public to seal the border NOW. That’s the last thing the US government wants to do is seal the border. They have too much riding on illegal immigration as a means of diluting conservative voting patterns.
Nah, they just wanted to implement further passport control powers, passenger check list co-ops and increase their "if we think you are a suspect, we can arrest you" powers....
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/01/cameron-clegg-anti-terror-talks-british-born-jihadis-syria-iraq
Cheers!
Fred
guess it's an orgy and ISIS gonna spill the beans on the USSA
Geez, c'mon 'Merkins pull yourselves together!
when we invaded iraq in 2003, i knew that if we ever pulled out iran would take over iraq. they had an equilibrium of sorts.
if the us gets out of the way iran will take special care of isis
Agreed.
Hezbollah has been doing that in parts of Lebanon and in Syria.
The USA and the people who control the US Govt just want chaos.
I just don't understand, but I'm sure that's the way TPTB want it.
After all this terrorism, Islam, ME/Iran/N. Africa stuff is boiled down it comes down to sunni vs shia. No matter how it's framed, no matter what "nationalities" are involved, it always comes down to Sunnis fighting Shias, or vice versa.
The best option is stay out, sell them weapons and let them kill each other, or don't sell them weapons, let someone else make money selling them weapons, and let them kill each other.
But if you insist on being involved, & McCain and the blood thirsty members of congress will insist, pick a side, sunni or shia. I don't care which side. No more "this is not a secular/religious fight", because it is.
"Turkey and Qatar
Turkey and Qatar suddenly have a shared interest in keeping the Islamist movement they separately helped foster in check before Islamic State absorbs and consolidates it."
Nothing said about saudi support for isis? Really? Turkey and Qatar want to keep isis in check? The writer is either hoepelessly niave or a propagandist.
Cluster Fuked?
Egypt, BEAUTIFUL culture/ CIAed!
This is for the fuktard Junkster/
Libyan militants play in pool at abandoned U.S. diplomatic compound - LA Times
At this point I do not care, it's the other side of the planet.
That's about the most retarded use of Β-splines I have ever seen. ISIS is a conjured hobgoblin for small minds.
Soviets had Izvestia, Trud, and Pravda
We suffer the WSJ, Huff Post, and New York Times
The collective mind power of Zero Hedge would blow Langley away!
The CIA is dumbing itself down. Accountability/ Blame it on the ROBOT!
The common thread is the USA who has created many if not all the problems over decades of meddeling in the other countries.
The Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. & AL CIA duh / Zionist Isreal / Mossad should be in the center of that circle branching out to the other Criminal State sponsored Countries.
And, what! No NATO in that mix?
We have always been at war with ourselves...........
The enemy of your enemy is your enemies enemy, no more and no less.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend unless my enemies enemy is my other friends enemy in which case he is my enemy.......once removed..... there tidy that up for you.,,now I have to go and lie down for awhile.
The John McCain fund raises for the Al-Queda.
Oh what a tangled web the U.S weaved...literally
This is what is called ordinary geo politics.Our enemies of yesteryear - Britain French/Indians Japan Commie Russia and China became our friends for a while yet now a few are evolving back into enemies. Thats just the way history works. Of course a weaker Commander N Chief can encourage enemies.
Germany and Japan intensely watched American elections as FDR swore that the US WAS NOT GOING TO WAR under any circumstance.And of course there was Neville Chamberlains.
This is 101 basic, for sheeple
Ah, geopolitics, American style - where you send soldiers to fight alongside past enemies to combat a new enemy formed mostly from ragtag militent groups you previously armed and trained to fight the earlier enemies you're now fighting alongside. I'm pretty sure just about all the weapons and ammo on all sides is stamped "Made in USA", so if people want to change sides mid-fight, at least that will be interchangeable.
is this good or bad? I mean from the perspective of a powerful lobbyist who's bonus depends from ammunition and weapons sales?
Oh, I have no doubt the whole squalid mess is entirely by design and perfectly serves the interests of its architects, and their clients.
The soldiers and militents on all sides are pawns in this little game, with the same sets of grubby fingers reaching down to move them about on the great chessboard that is the Earth.
Okay, how long will it be before ISISi s our ally against -----------------------fill in the blank? And and why is the American flag not joined at the hip with the Israeli flag??
Ha. A certain small country should be in the middle, like a spider, with the other countries trapped in its web!
Botswana?
Yes, Botswanastein.
Something in the diagram doesn't look right.
How does Al Qaeda and America have a colored link but Israel and America don't?
We have no "friends" in the muslim world: the divide the world into two places- dar al harb (world of war) and dar al Islam world of Islam. Guess which "world" WE are in?
When these barbarians aren't fighting and killing each other, they want to kill us. The whole thing in the ME is which group will control the new islamic state (aka caliphate.) FYI, re-estatblishing the caliphate (last one was Ottoman empire) is part of the islamic "end times" teaching and they must bathe the earth in blood before the Mahdi (islamic messiah) will return.
Israel Nears Gas Sales to Egypt as Mideast Unrest Flares
21 August 2014, by Shoshanna Solomon (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-08-20/israeli-gas-to-reach-global-market-via-pipelines-to-egypt.html
Thanks for the link. Israeli nat gas going to Europe is gonna piss off Putin and the Ruskies this winter when they want to turn of the gas pipeline to pressure Europe into doing what Putin wants.
Now that IS RA EL has decided itr needs 3 Klicks of Gaza land (which is 42% of all its land) for a "buffer" zone, one more little invasion will pertty much cede Gaza to everyone's favorite country; the pali's which happens to conrol a very key gas deposit needed by our semites to bridge to their own gas.
Funny how $$ controls foreign policy and tactics. Milestones
What a tangled web we weave. Things have deteriorated to the point that people in American are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.
It is amazing so many people don't have a clue as to what is going on. Recently the group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More details on the dire situation in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
Interesting how Israel and Al Qaeda both have only one lonely little line. I guess they run the same playbook (from opposite sides of the fence)