The Middle East Explained
by
Aubrey Bailey
Are you confused about U.S. involvement in the Middle East? Let me explain.
We support the Iraqi government in the fight against the Islamic State. We don’t like IS, but IS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.
We don’t like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not IS which is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against IS. So some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends. Some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, whom we want to lose, but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.
If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they might be replaced by people we like even less. And all this was started by…
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Myra H. Mcilvain 
I first read this on Bruce’s blog, he’s right on with this one.
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Yes, I agree. Thanks for the follow.
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It’s my pleasure, still reading some of your posts, nice work.
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It’s not really so complicated. When our enemies fight each other, that’s a win win situation. When our friends support our enemies, they’re not really friends. And as for those enemies who might fall and be replaced by even worse… that just helps us put the focus on evil.
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Thanks, ShimonZ, for adding to the conversation..
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Amen! From: Myra H. Mcilvain To: patti_niles@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 4:57 PM Subject: [New post] The Middle East Explained #yiv7688978252 a:hover {color:red;}#yiv7688978252 a {text-decoration:none;color:#0088cc;}#yiv7688978252 a.yiv7688978252primaryactionlink:link, #yiv7688978252 a.yiv7688978252primaryactionlink:visited {background-color:#2585B2;color:#fff;}#yiv7688978252 a.yiv7688978252primaryactionlink:hover, #yiv7688978252 a.yiv7688978252primaryactionlink:active {background-color:#11729E;color:#fff;}#yiv7688978252 WordPress.com | myrahmcilvain posted: ” ” | |
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Thanks, Patti.
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