Saudi Recklessness Exposes Our Own
An evil Saudi provocation, he says.
The New Year’s execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation.
Its first purpose: Signal the new ruthlessness and resolve of the Saudi monarchy where the power behind the throne is the octogenarian King Salman’s son, the 30-year-old Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman.
Second, crystallize, widen, and deepen a national-religious divide between Sunni and Shiite, Arab and Persian, Riyadh and Tehran.
Third, rupture the rapprochement between Iran and the United States and abort the Iranian nuclear deal.
He's been making propaganda for the Iran/Russia/Assad/Hezbollah axis for a good while, now.
Somebody paying him?
The FSB, maybe?
Still, he is right about the role of the Saudis in supporting and fomenting Sunni violence, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
That doesn't make the Shiite axis into good guys.
And this is right.
In the Middle East, where the crucial Western interest is oil, and every nation—Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Libya—has to sell it to survive—no nation should be able drag us into a war not of our own choosing.
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