With the dire situation in the Middle East continuously evolving, and with governments seemingly on the verge of collapse, or have collapsed, do you feel confident that the failed Obama-U.S. foreign policy will swoop in and save the day?
Nope.Just this week alone, the U.S.-backed Yemeni government has fallen to radical Islamists, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died. Add this to the ongoing strife in Syria, where all bets are off as to what is going to happen in the land that Allah built.
If you also add into the equation that the Islamist terror group ISIS, who is all about beheading their foreign hostages, is virtually running wild and free in Iraq, you have one heck of a “worst case scenario” mess in the Middle East.
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While ISIS is the terror group de jour, Iran is the real culprit in the ongoing fight against Islamic terrorism. Make no mistake about it, Iran holds the purse strings, and calls all of the shots.
A former U.S. diplomat close to the Saudi royal family told Fox News Thursday that the death of the 90-year-old King, along with this week’s collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Yemen, was a “worst-case scenario” because it removed another obstacle to Iran expanding its reach in the region. The former diplomat said that Tehran’s influence could now be seen in four Middle Eastern capitals — Sana’a in Yemen, as well as Baghdad, Damascus, and to a lesser extent, Beirut.
Abdullah, a Sunni Arab, made one of the main priorities of his rule countering mainly Shiite Iran whenever it tried to make advances in the region. He also backed Sunni factions against Tehran’s allies in several countries, but in Lebanon, for example, the policy failed to stop Iranian-backed Hezbollah from gaining the upper hand. And Tehran and Riyadh’s colliding ambitions stoked proxy conflicts around the region that enflamed Sunni-Shiite hatreds — most notably and terribly in Syria’s civil war, where the two countries backed opposing sides. Those conflicts in turn hiked Sunni militancy that returned to threaten Saudi Arabia.-Fox
It doesn’t seem likely that Saudi Arabia would ever fall to Islamists, even though the country is filled with individuals who are themselves Islamists, or sympathetic to the Jihadi cause.
But don’t dismiss the thought that the Saudis could one day lose control to radical Islam, stranger things have happened, and Islamists are more hell-bent than ever to bring back their Caliphate.
