So I'm by no means well versed in Middle Eastern history or foreign affiars, but I do try to keep up on current events. I also enjoy the different perspectives held by many here on topics like this.

 

I'm not so naive to ask if we can keep the politics to a minimum, but let's certainly keep it civil.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/middleeast/yemen-how-we-got-here/index.html -- Backstory

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/middleeast/yemen-saudi-arabia-airstrikes/ -- more recent events

 

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/03/26-why-attack-yemen-shapiro?utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=16768935&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8HlwR9QlKdQJiL18SphNXVCqvJfrO8PCwaA490PnrT6Un6FLWoGEHxSFKtIvn-OmBWL9u9qZbvoTU99iPkIVTnHTMqGHkEPpGaePf8UhGWvhAp-v4&_hsmi=16768935 -- Western take

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/coalition-jets-continue-hit-houthi-targets-yemen-150327022702372.html -- non-Western take?

 

My take: whenever you think the Middle East  is completely FUBAR, there happens something that fucks things up even more

just wait until they start the Beeldenstorm

 

no wait

 

they already are.

 

meh, only a century to go until enlightenment

just wait until they start the Beeldenstorm

 

no wait

 

they already are.

 

meh, only a century to go until enlightenment

 

How optimistic of you

If the Muslims have to fight a war on an international scale where Shias and Sunnis must perish in vast numbers just so the Muslims can unite again and correct their ways, then I say let the war come.

 

just wait until they start the Beeldenstorm

 

no wait

 

they already are.

 

meh, only a century to go until enlightenment

 

How optimistic of you

 

well, seeing as it took us almost a millenium (and we still have issues) to get to something of a peacefull state, I'd like some optimism

 

that and AK's and cars get the job done faster then spears and horses.

I hope they dont forget to knockout AQ/ISIS while they play game of thrones. 

Edited March 28, 201511 yr by Shahenshah

 

People in the middle east should consider themselves lucky I'm not a world leader. We'd have already solved the majority of the problems by doing something similar to that.

 

The remnants would immediately start fighting over the island in the middle

 

 

The remnants would immediately start fighting over the island in the middle

 

seeing what the island is, I'd rather think they would construct massive islands to sell to western billionairs.

 

 

seeing what the island is, I'd rather think they would construct massive islands to sell to western billionairs.

 

Thats just the problem isn't it. The west has always been stupid enough to put their money in the wrong hands. I mean you support one guy to kill another guy but in an ironic twist of fate that guy also happens to hate you cuz you interfered in his life some point in time and now after he's done the job you gave him, he's gonna come after you and you get scared and call your allies and the whole party just becomes a cluster**k.

 

The west always adds fuel to the fire. Need I remind everyone that these "rebel" Houthis were actually funded and supported by the US and KSA against the Yemen Communist Republic......    

If you zoom up you can actually see all the off-shore drilling platforms.

 

seeing what the island is, I'd rather think they would construct massive islands to sell to western billionairs.

 

Thats just the problem isn't it. The west has always been stupid enough to put their money in the wrong hands. I mean you support one guy to kill another guy but in an ironic twist of fate that guy also happens to hate you cuz you interfered in his life some point in time and now after he's done the job you gave him, he's gonna come after you and you get scared and call your allies and the whole party just becomes a cluster**k.

 

The west always adds fuel to the fire. Need I remind everyone that these "rebel" Houthis were actually funded and supported by the US and KSA against the Yemen Communist Republic......    

 

war by proxi is cleaner at home, go figure

 

not that such stupidity is limited to "the west", anyone in power does that.

 

 

The remnants would immediately start fighting over the island in the middle

 

Probably the last oil well there thats why. 

 

seeing what the island is, I'd rather think they would construct massive islands to sell to western billionairs.

Thats just the problem isn't it. The west has always been stupid enough to put their money in the wrong hands. I mean you support one guy to kill another guy but in an ironic twist of fate that guy also happens to hate you cuz you interfered in his life some point in time and now after he's done the job you gave him, he's gonna come after you and you get scared and call your allies and the whole party just becomes a cluster**k.

 

The west always adds fuel to the fire. Need I remind everyone that these "rebel" Houthis were actually funded and supported by the US and KSA against the Yemen Communist Republic......

Let's not forget all the aid to secular and moderate rebels in Syria, who are now either in ISIS or AQ offshoots. Tho, let's keep raging and have a collective memory loss and pretend they all were conjured out of thin air and talk about the island instead. Let's keep pretending the interventions to create puppet regimes have zero consequences.

 

Also, FYI, that island replaces the areas having least density of Muslims per square mile, since were talking about holocaust level cleansing, thought you all ought to know.

 

The island seems to be specifically targeted towards Arab and Persian Muslims oh and the Kurds, who last I checked werstn really part of the whole AQ/ISIS thread, but hey, why not, right? You will miss out on the billion others...

 

 

Betsy, everyone in power does it, agreed, so let's call spade a spade, what ISIS does is terrorism, but what bush did was liberation :-)

 

 

People in the middle east should consider themselves lucky I'm not a world leader. We'd have already solved the majority of the problems by doing something similar to that.

What Hitler said about the Jews.

Edited March 29, 201511 yr by Shahenshah

Bush "liberated", whom from what?

 

he liberated rockets from their storage, thats for sure >_>

Somewhat unrelated, but still very informative. The last question is quite relevant to the Shia/Sunni conflict I believe

 

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-infographic/

You still have to take care of Boko Haram.

 

You still have to take care of Boko Haram.

 

The AU can take care of that

 

 

seeing what the island is, I'd rather think they would construct massive islands to sell to western billionairs.

Thats just the problem isn't it. The west has always been stupid enough to put their money in the wrong hands. I mean you support one guy to kill another guy but in an ironic twist of fate that guy also happens to hate you cuz you interfered in his life some point in time and now after he's done the job you gave him, he's gonna come after you and you get scared and call your allies and the whole party just becomes a cluster**k.

 

The west always adds fuel to the fire. Need I remind everyone that these "rebel" Houthis were actually funded and supported by the US and KSA against the Yemen Communist Republic...... :P

Let's not forget all the aid to secular and moderate rebels in Syria, who are now either in ISIS or AQ offshoots. Tho, let's keep raging and have a collective memory loss and pretend they all were conjured out of thin air and talk about the island instead. Let's keep pretending the interventions to create puppet regimes have zero consequences.

 

Also, FYI, that island replaces the areas having least density of Muslims per square mile, since were talking about holocaust level cleansing, thought you all ought to know.

 

The island seems to be specifically targeted towards Arab and Persian Muslims oh and the Kurds, who last I checked werstn really part of the whole AQ/ISIS thread, but hey, why not, right? You will miss out on the billion others...

 

 

Betsy, everyone in power does it, agreed, so let's call spade a spade, what ISIS does is terrorism, but what bush did was liberation :-)

 

People in the middle east should consider themselves lucky I'm not a world leader. We'd have already solved the majority of the problems by doing something similar to that.

What Hitler said about the Jews.

 

 

While I agree it's a very fucked up solution to propose, I must point out that it's a different sort of fucked up than Hitler and Jew. Not more or less fucked up, but definitely different.

 

Lol at your Game of Thrones comment. I'd go to war for Emilia Clarke.

Bibi said that it was a game of thrones in his speech to the U.S. Congress. It is very true that all these factions want an Islamic State, but they will all fight each other for who will be the king of that state. It's a very real analogy.

Bibi said that it was a game of thrones in his speech to the U.S. Congress. It is very true that all these factions want an Islamic State, but they will all fight each other for who will be the king of that state. It's a very real analogy.

Bibi is also saying for last 10 years that Iran will get the bomb the next year. Let's not muddy the analogy.

 

Bibi said that it was a game of thrones in his speech to the U.S. Congress. It is very true that all these factions want an Islamic State, but they will all fight each other for who will be the king of that state. It's a very real analogy.

Bibi is also saying for last 10 years that Iran will get the bomb the next year. Let's not muddy the analogy.

 

Don't lie sha. Bibi has been saying Iran will get the bomb in a matter of months! Also he's had to mossad chiefs resign because they said he was lying and that their reports contradict the theory that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, nor are they intent on nuking Israel.

 

Also I was wrong about the Houthi rebels. Apologies to FoxFire or w/e and who ever else.

 

 

Bibi said that it was a game of thrones in his speech to the U.S. Congress. It is very true that all these factions want an Islamic State, but they will all fight each other for who will be the king of that state. It's a very real analogy.

Bibi is also saying for last 10 years that Iran will get the bomb the next year. Let's not muddy the analogy.

 

Don't lie sha. Bibi has been saying Iran will get the bomb in a matter of months! Also he's had to mossad chiefs resign because they said he was lying and that their reports contradict the theory that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, nor are they intent on nuking Israel.

 

Also I was wrong about the Houthi rebels. Apologies to FoxFire or w/e and who ever else.

 

Now he's mad at some of his vassals for not getting in line! No more campaign monies for the puppets!

Edited April 4, 201511 yr by Shahenshah