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Friday 30 December 2011

War and Dominos

We approach the new year with the stench of war hanging around us. As the rhetoric between Iran and America increases the actions are undeniably naive and downright dangerous.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al- Malki talks of "rivers of blood" as America once again forgoes its morality to support a strongman set upon abandoning a power sharing government. To this end the Obama administration is supplying weaponry and training of US$ 11 billion.
The House of Khalifa must be quaking in their sandals.
Obama has also approved the go ahead of half the US$60Billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia . Now he has tasted blood this President is lapping it up. Remote wars always kick start the economy and have been used time and time again.
However his targets are not as soft and the coming year will see no doubt the fall of many US friendly regimes.
Even Vladimir Putin has discovered when the people lose their fear the apparatus of government starts to collapse.
With the Arab League monitors already admitting their mission in Syria is doomed to failure , and witch-hunts becoming the norm in Jordan the Israelis are encouraging the plans for "Al Wataan al badeel" or Jordan to become a defacto alternative for Palestine as they build more and more illegal settlements making a two state solution unworkable.
With Assad and others seeing the writing on the wall and the Army in Egypt stifling revolutionary change the Holy land will once again experience war as the circle has come round and the only legitimacy that remains is that of the Palestinian cause.
This time the consequences of war are far greater the appetite for more than regional players to get involved much more determined.
Watch the domino effect and pray I am wrong.