T.H.I.S. I.S. B.I.G.
While you were thawing your Thanksgiving turkey, while Obama was "Pardoning" his two White House gift birds "Cobbler" and "Gobbler", while we all slept with visions of Black Friday bargains dancing in our heads, the United States of America just gave away the Middle East.
Yes we did.
President Morsi of Egypt is now the new US-backed ruler of the Middle East, except for Israel and maybe Saudi Arabia.
Did YOU not think it was strange that Secretary of State Clinton (you will hear that name with "President" in front of it in four years) rushed to the war-torn region of Gaza, and with a few quick helo trips between Netanyahu and Morsi, whipped out a Cease-Fire which, unlike many such before it, actually held?
Did you not think it was strange that, at first light in Israel today, 40,000 reserve soldiers were standing down from the Gaza border. The IDF keeps it's own counsel, or has since 1948, anyway.
Did you not think it was strange that Hamas and Fatah, blood enemies just three days ago in Gaza, were seen hugging and waving each others' flags?
Finally, did you not think it was strange that this morning in Egypt, President Morsi granted himself complete dictatorial powers far in excess of Egypt's constitution, without so much as a word of comment from DeeCee? Yes, that's traditional over there, but the timing is suspicious.
What we have just done, Dear Readers, is take the biggest peaceful gamble in foreign policy that's been taken since Ronnie Reagan decided to try to outspend the USSR and force them into bankruptcy. We have just handed the Islamic Middle East to Morsi to run. Some of you cynics may say that it wasn't ours to hand over, and you'd be correct, but this, people, is the "assumptive close", and we're pretending it IS ours to hand to Morsi. With US backing, especially the backing of the Sixth and Seventh Fleets, Morsi has his lock on Islam outside of Qom, and maybe even in Qom.
We won't know all the answers for weeks or maybe years, but Morsi's party, the Islamic Brotherhood, now will engage Iran's Mullahs for control of the Islamic world.
That leaves just one question: Is this going to be an Islamic conflict? Morsi vs. the Grand Ayatollah? Or, has Morsi just pulled off the perfect taqiyya (Islamic "rope-a-dope") on Mrs. Clinton, and there is no conflict, Morsi is simply another altar boy for the Grand Ayatollah, and the Islamist Grand Caliphate is now brought into being, thanks to the USA.
Time will tell. We've either just made an excellent choice for new stability in that region, or we've just morphed Islamist dreams into policy, and shortly, Israel will be fighting a nuclear Masada.
I'm wondering when the Syrian insurgents will get control of the WMD's that Assad has. His home-grown stuff plus what came from Iraq could do real damage to Israel. I'm guessing that Syria will attain glow-in-the-dark status after it gets used. Providing that the Israeli's don't go in and grab it first.
I was reading that when things were looking really bad in the Yom Kippur war, that they started shipping nukes to the airfield, and began assembling them. The battles started going their way before they got them mated to the bombers, so they returned them to storage. THAT story should have the attention of every head of state in that part of the world.
Which reminds me of the news video from back when Saddam was tossing SCUD's at Israel. The general pointing out to a pair of fighter-bombers with oddly sized weapons hanging under the wings, and stating "if those SCUD missiles are armed with any kind of WMD, those planes will launch". IIRC, that was the first time Israel publicly acknowledged they were a nuclear power.
Also, the experts think that the Israeli's have bumped the British down a position on the list of nuclear warheads owned. Puts them at #4, I think. They've got land based ICBM's, gravity bombs (well, aircraft carried), and sub launched cruise missiles.
They have short range stuff, too. Lots of tactical warheads, such as artillery. I suspect they have just about everything except hand grenades!
Posted by: Will | November 26, 2012 at 00:54