“IS ANY ONE paying notice to me?? Or should I…”
Sounds like, as if the ‘Foremost’ is being discounted by the ‘Feeble’. And the former is threatening the latter with grim penalty.
The above situation is quite similar to the Mid-east conflict. It seems the “Foremost”, the United States, is all lost and lone in the region. A decade ago, the directive of US sprinted across the region. At present, the state of affairs is quite unlike. Monarchs, nation-states in the region are doing the things in their own way. Militant organizations have their own say.
The following cases would corroborate the US’ catch 22 situation in Mid-east. Both Syria and Iran are taking US for granted. Palestine and Iraq, which were once fused by Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein are now in the grip of civil unrest. The people of Lebanon were recurring back to normal life after a lengthy civil war. The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri plunged the country back to political ambiguity. The 34-day war involving Israel and Hezbollah, worked as fire to the Middle-east oil.
Before the US-led alliance occupied Iraq, Iran was not in a position to rise up against the US But since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iran has demonstrated its ever-growing influence over the affairs of Iraq. Bush administration has charged Iran of backing insurgency. It appears Iran is bearing dual responsibility in Iraq. First, it is supporting the US-backed political progression, which shores up the pro-Iranian parties. Second, Iran is also taking the path of aggression, by sustaining the confrontational commotion in Iraq.
On the other hand, Syria is not as ideologically ambitious as Iran when it comes to Iraq. For Syrians, weapons and foreign fighters pour across their border into Iraq and also ex-Baathist chiefs discover a secure shelter in Syria. Syria can be persuaded by US to end its support of violence in Iraq and distance itself with the Shiite Iran. This can be done with economic incentives and making Syria to trust, that it would be a regional partner along with the US. Syria has the potential to sway the events in Iraq. Thus, it becomes imperative for the US to engage Syria usefully.
Lately, the government of Saudi Arabia said, it will defend Iraqi Sunnis if US leaves. So far, Saudi Arabia has been inert and detached, when it comes to Iraq. A number of Iraqi Sunnis protested that Saudi Arabia has not offered support for their fellow Sunnis in Iraq. Being the source of Islam and leader of the world’s Sunni population, which is almost 85 per cent of the total Muslims, bestows Saudi Arabia with adequate grounds to interfere in Iraq. If it does, then for sure a regional war would be on the cards.
The annoyance for US doesn’t stops here. Organizations like Mahdi Army, the Badr Organization, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al-Qaeda, have been making things quite more tortuous for the US. These militant outfits have been used as proxy by regional powers like Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. The Sunni uprising in Iraq has been acquiring support from Al-Qaeda. Most of the Sunni ******* bombers have been pouring in from neighboring Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah and Hamas are more or less, on the same course of Iran and Syria.
With the passing of each day, events are becoming more knotty and thorny in Mid-east. None of the regional powers, it seems, are under the influence of the great hyper power –US. The latest being the Prime Minister of Iraq, who overruled the unease of the US officials on hanging Saddam Hussein at the beginning of Eid al-Adha. This act might be another step towards the erosion of US supremacy from the Mid-east.
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