Chaos in the Middle East 

There is little doubt that this administration has make a total mess of the Middle East so in no particular order we have: the Obama apology tour starting in Cairo, to doing nothing about nukes in Iran, to the Red Line in the civil war in Syria, to the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt, to the Arab Spring, to Libya and Bengasi to relations with Israel, to no Status of Forces agreement with Iraq, to the present situation ISIS in Iraq. All this shows is that there is no one in the administration that has a clue about the Muslim’s their religion (Sunnism and Shiism) and their devote followers which we call Islamic radicals also know by names like The Muslim Brotherhood, The Taliban, al Qaida and now ISIS.

Since I was a Green Beret officer and I had to study the principle of warfare, as it really exists not as the Politian’s think it is, and certainly not what is practiced today, so one of the first things was to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of war; and one of the first principles is to “Know the enemy,” which the present day American leaders do not know. The bottom line is that if you are a Muslim than you are obligated to conduct Jihad against all who are not part their Islamic faith which is the only possible faith there is and all must eventually submit to Islam. Those like Osama bin Laden were and are devote Muslim’s doing what their religion mandates that they do. And their hatred for America is real since America goes against everything that they believe in and since we were the world’s only super power, until recently, we were their focus.

We are fortunate that the Muslims have two sects Sunni 75/80% (light green chart below) and Shea 25/20% (dark green chart below) in very round numbers as there are other minority versions. The split goes back to the period just after the death of Mohammad in 632 AD over the succession i.e. who was the rightful successor to Mohammad, and has never been resolved. But no matter as each of these sects wants to establish a Global Caliphate which basically means a single government where the Islamic faith and all political rules are conducted under the principles of Sharia law so it’s a theocracy. This is the complete merger of religion and daily life where all live in an absolutely controlled environment where every aspect of daily life is conducted under the terms of Sharia law. How that is to occur is part of the reason for the split in the Islamic faith and that keeps them preoccupied which is good for the rest of us.

Back in the day after WW II the Muslim Brotherhood was gaining power and developed a strategy for world conquest. There were two aspect to their plan the political and the military and both were conducted simultaneously with the Brotherhood moving into Europe and America through immigration and once here infiltrating into the political system in the guise of helping the rest of us to understand them since they had different beliefs. The other side the military was al-Qaida with bin Laden as one of the main leaders. Both of these movements had the same goal which was the conversion of Western civilization to Islam. The military side al-Qaida conducted the physical Jihad war. The political side, The Brotherhood was doing this though internal means which is called Civilization Jihad. The brotherhood created The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and was successful in getting into the American political system and after 9-11 were able to convince the American leadership that they ISNA could help us to understand Islam and that if we did so the problem would go away.

In essence the political arm of al-Qaida was telling the Politian’s here how to conduct the war against terror. Since dying while conducting Jihad guarantees one a place in heaven those that America killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were only collateral damage to them and so it was acceptable to those infiltration our political system, however that is not the subject here; the important point is that the brotherhood and al-Qaida are Sunni that is why most of America’s help has been to those areas which are dominated by the Sunni.

Obviously there is more to this then what is in these first few paragraphs but this is a blog not a history class and that leads us to the current situation. For the most part the Middle East was ruled by strong dictators such as Hosni Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad, Sadam Husain and Muammar al-Gaddafi and they kept a lid on the fundamentalist’s religious factions that wanted the Caliphate brought back after it ended in 1923 with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; interestingly the ISIS is targeting many of the countries from the Ottoman Empire so it’s possible that Turkey is somehow involved in this as well as they were the main seat of power for the Ottomans and they are mostly Sunni.

Which now takes us to what we have going on in Iraq with the ISIS sweep out of Syria and taking over large parts of Iraq, so far mostly Sunni areas. But as they get closer to Baghdad the Iranians who are Shea will be likely be drawn in to protect their religious brothers. This situation is totally out of control and it’s a direct result of this administration and their push for the Arab Spring of liberation. And since we have and are pulling out of the region there will be a continuing conflict until one side or the other dominates and stabilizes the situation. The Pakistani’s are a wild card here as they are primarily Sunni and they have the atom bomb.

Because of the Brotherhoods influence in the American Government we will be drawn into this building conflict on the Sunni side in their battle against the Shea which is Iran. Iran will be forced to retaliate on religious grounds as well as the overall goal of eliminating America as a threat to them. This is extremely dangerous as a containment strategy such as Mutual Assured Destruct (MAD) as was used against the old USSR will not work here as they would have no problem allowing for the Destruction of say Tehran if it also meant America was taken out by a nuke on Washington DC and New York City for example.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION AND THERE IS NO ONE OF ANY COMPETENCE OCCUPYING THE WHITE HOUSE!