CAIRO — Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies on Sunday stepped up their efforts to drum up support for Western airstrikes against Syria.
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Saudis and allies try to gather support for strike on Syria.
Posted: Sep 1, 2013
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With the Arab League meeting on Sunday evening for a second time to discuss responses to the Syrian crisis, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, broke the kingdom’s public silence on the subject at a news conference in Cairo on Sunday afternoon, urging other Arab nations to back the Syrian rebels with military action against the government of President Bashar al-Assad after a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds.
Saudi Arabia, its Gulf allies and Jordan have all pushed hard behind the scenes for Washington to lead strikes against Mr. Assad, whom they consider the most important regional ally of their greatest enemy, Iran. That pressure continued on Sunday, but until now the monarchies have refrained from publicly endorsing Western military action, presumably because the idea of Western intervention is overwhelmingly unpopular across the Arab world.
And meanwhile - Iran..
[ In Reply To ..]has drawn it's own "red line" - if the US attacks Syria, there will be retaliation.
Any time any nation acts in the Middle East, there - will be retaliation. That's just one
[ In Reply To ..]reason President Obama has been very reluctant to involve us when not absolutely necessary there.
A burden for the rest of the world that its strategic position and portion of the world's oil, and of course planetary humanity such as it is, don't allow outside nations to leave the nations there to keep each other in check while they continue to progress into their version of the modern world.
US State Dept: Iran's capacity for terrorist acts outside the Middle East - has eroded
[ In Reply To ..]according to former State Department’s Office of Policy Planning Syrian analyst Jerry Shapiro, who says they have had a string of failed attempts. Their attempts to attack Israeli targets in Thailand and India were thwarted. It's no secret their focus has been on Israel. Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center also says attacks outside the Middle East are unlikely in retaliation to limited strikes on Syria and would only consider those actions only if they perceive a direct bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb Iran threat. Otherwise, their focus would be primarily on "U.S., Israeli, and Western assets in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region.”
That said, since when does the US allow Iran to dictate its military agendas or back down after idle threats? I feel quite certain the subject of the possibilities of contingent retaliations will be rigorously exercised in the upcoming congressional debates.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/29/will-iran-retaliate-if-the-u-s-strikes-syria.html
The only way our military agenda is "dictated" by Iran is - into the "proxy war" we've been
[ In Reply To ..]engaged in with Iran for some years now. Iran exports and fans terrorism around the planet. Beating Iran, quietly or noisily, is behind of most of our military actions these days, including in Syria.
Note that Obama's version of war has is hurting Iran badly while costing very, very few American lives, most of those undercover in hostile territory that we will probably never know about.
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