Qatar — Russia calls for peace and dialog — while the US arguably herds everyone toward more war

© 2017 Peter Free

 

12 June 2017

 

 

All is fine and dandy with us

 

A short while ago, President Trump managed to stumble his way into putting Qatar on the ropes — as against the alliance of beheadists and terror-mongers — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates among them, with Egypt eagerly cheering everything on.

 

In contrast, Russia (that rising Middle East player) is calling for dialog.

 

 

The perplexing thing

 

When we query why Qatar is the only bad guy, its supportive relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas come up.

 

Saudi Arabia, effervescent sponsor of Wahhabist terrorism — (including the majority of America's 9/11 attackers) — mysteriously skates again.

 

 

A little more Trumpian pre-thought — would have been strategically preferable

 

Today, Iran and Turkey are siding with Qatar against its adversaries' short-of-war attack.

 

American behavior (it seems) has enabled yet another Middle East confrontation, whose origins we know nothing about.

 

 

The moral? — If an American Administration says something, it generally combines (a) awe-inspiring levels of hypocrisy with (b) unfathomable lack of thought

 

The Great American War Machine marches happily on. No tumult is too threatening to contemplate setting it further afire.

 

Pertinently (if stupidity is the topic) — Army General H. R. McMaster, now National Security Advisor, reportedly wants to add 5,000 more American troops to the 8,400 already in Afghanistan.

 

He is, I guess, operating under the arguable delusion that what we could not previously accomplish with a 140,000 troop NATO International Security Assistance Force, we will now with massively less.

 

I guess the threshold of success magically kicks in at 13,400 troops, under circumstances where it utterly eluded us at 8,400 and 140,000.

 

Odd strategic math, to say the least.

 

By now, we should wonder where these American strategy geniuses come from.

 

Or why we allow this "awesomely" unlearning ilk to continue to tell us what to do.