Anglo-American policy in the Middle East explained
Posted by Charles II on August 31, 2014
I received this from a friend.
Just in case you are confused by what is going on in the Middle East, I have obtained this simple explanation of the UK Government’s apparent position:
We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS. We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia whom we do like.
We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.
So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends, and 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 could be replaced by people we like even less.
And all this was started by Blair siding with Bush and invading a country to drive out terrorists who were not actually there until after we went in to drive them out.
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jo6pac said
Sadly your friend nails it.
Phoenix Woman said
Agreed. I’d add something else, UK-specific: “We, just as do our colleagues in the US, know that the Saudis are backing a lot of the people who would make things far worse if they could, but we don’t dare cross them because it’s either them or Putin when it comes to our petrol as the North Sea deposits that saved Thatcher’s worthless arse got used up a decade ago.”
spirilis said
“are backing a lot of the people who would make things far worse if they could,” Bad case of assuming facts not in the evidence.
Charles II said
You mean, a bad case of knowing facts in evidence, Spirlils. For example: