Are
We Expanding the Syrian Sectarian War into Proxy War with Russia?
February 29, 2016
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict
between the Persians and many of the Sunni Arabs Nations. The war was assisted
directly by the United States and some of the European countries, lasting from
September 1980 to August 1988. It was the 20th century’s longest conventional war.
The conflict resulted in death of over 500,000 Iranians and injuring millions.
Why are we supporting the same countries that attacked Iran during 1980?
During the conflict, Syria steadfastly stood by Iranians during the conflict.
Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Kingdoms have not forgotten the intransigence
of Syria government supporting the Iranian government. Are we once more
siding with the Sunni Arabs against Iranians? The New York Times, Anne Barnard
and Karam Shoumalioct, 12, 2015, reported: U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria
into Proxy War with Russia? The American-made TOW antitank missiles began
arriving in the region in 2013, through a covert program run by the United
States, Saudi Arabia and other allies to help certain C.I.A.-vetted insurgent
groups battle the Syrian government. The weapons are delivered to the
field by American allies, but the United States approves their destination.
That suggests that the newly steady battlefield supply has at least tacit American
approval, now that Russian air power is backing President Bashar al-Assad. As
experience indicates, our American made equipment is being used by ISIS.
These new equipment will also be used against the government of Syria,
Russians, Iranians, Kurdish and forces of Iraq government. Have we
thought through this process?
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Who
is paying for ISIS operations? Please Target Terror Donors
November 29, 2015This article was
published by the San Diego Union-Tribune, November 17, 2015.
“Donors in Saudi Arabia
constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups
worldwide,” then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton wrote in a secret December 2009 memo revealed by WikiLeaks hackers.
Wealthy Sunnis in Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are also hugely
helpful, U.S. officials have long confirmed off the record.”
“Friday’s brutal terrorist
rampage in Paris leaves France, the rest of Europe and the United States facing
a huge quandary. Islamic State has explicitly said its attacks have the goal of
triggering a harsh backlash so as to further inflame potential jihadists. The
Western world seems inclined to give the terrorist group what it wants.
This backlash is in its early
stages and is mounting rapidly. Having declared France is at war with Islamic
State and launched the heaviest air attacks yet on IS areas in Syria, President
François Hollande may now invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, which would require the U.S. and other NATO nations to come to
France’s collective defense. Across Europe, coarse nativist rhetoric has
quickly ramped up, with cold fury not just toward Islamic State but, to some
extent, against politicians whose policies are seen as making domestic
terrorism more likely.
Yet Islamic State isn’t a
nation-state, and a conventional war can’t beat IS, al-Qaeda and other like
movements. They build off ideas that can’t be destroyed by bombing raids or by
turning up scrutiny of Muslim communities in Europe. Those ideas start with the
central notion that societies should be organized and run not by elected
governments but by Islamic clerics with a radical interpretation of their
faith, men for whom “death to the infidels” is not an empty slogan but the way
to deal with all of their theocracy’s critics, starting with those who support
such basic human rights as equality between the sexes.
This is not remotely the face
of Islam in America. But there needs to be honesty about the appeal of this
chilling worldview to many of the millions of Muslims in Europe, especially
among young men who can’t find work and who are outraged by U.S. invasions of
Islamic nations. A 2014 poll showed 27 percent of French residents aged 18-24
supported Islamic State, which analysts interpreted as reflecting vast support
for IS among France’s young Muslims.
This is a foreboding picture of
mass radicalization. However, there is one obvious way to begin to respond to
the threat it represents, and that is — for the first time — to aggressively
target those who pay the bills. “Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most
significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,”
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in a secret December 2009 memo
revealed by WikiLeaks hackers. Wealthy Sunnis in Qatar, Kuwait and the United
Arab Emirates are also hugely helpful, U.S. officials have long confirmed off
the record.
It’s time to go on the record.
President Obama should lay out the facts about these terrorist enablers and
then seek to shut them down. This may not reduce the number of jihadists and
potential jihadists in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. But it is a
strategy that will reduce their resources and make days like Nov. 13 less
likely going forward. And if this strategy damages U.S. alliances with the
governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, so be
it. These nations’ tolerance of their citizens funding Islamic terrorism
suggests they are allies not worth having.”
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Netanyahu
existential threat for Iran: He wants war!
March 2, 2015Dr. Parsi: “Nobody in the Obama administration believes that Netanyahu is trying to advance the chances of a nuclear deal. Fewer and fewer people in the US media believe that Netanyahu is doing anything but trying to push the United States and Iran towards war. In fact, AIPAC was instructing its citizen lobbyists to tell US lawmakers that war with Iran is preferable to the unacceptability of the status quo, i.e. Obama’s nuclear deal.
To understand Netanyahu’s message this
week in Washington, one must understand that to those who crave war, peace is
existential threat.” He wants war!
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Reality and Decision
May 22, 2014
This is a story of life in America, but
it happens everywhere. It is fictional and just an idea to make you
think. This is more about Syria and Iraq, two nations at risk of being
divided into many pieces by forces founded by rich Saudi Arabian and Persian
Gulf kingdoms, and some other nations. Could the pieces governed by ISIS
like rulers would create better democratic systems? Make you think, does
it not?
My meshuge is a mutt and no
bigger than a ten-pound agitated and demanding coyote. Anything moving
makes him rattled and bark and bark. He is my walking companion
whenever the weather and my old joints permit strolling a short distance in our
neighborhood. He sniffs everything and drips on anything his leach would
allow. His tail wagging and barking at the neighbors’ dogs as we walk through
the street.
I keep a watch on the
neighborhood as though it is my business. You think God gave me this
responsibility. But, it is not that. We have had some problems,
kids long delayed to grow up, break in to steal items to support
their junks habits. These kids should get their testosterone
level checked and should be in the Army so they could do their damages
elsewhere. Not in my street.
But, I tell you. I have
had some other kind of problems lately. Most of my neighbors are old and
do their own things and sometimes force a smile as we go by. A house,
just few houses away from mine, is different. I have to tell you about
it, not that I would want your advice or giving me your own two-cent explanation.
Gai in drerde.
The house is different. I
have seen two old couples as old as my granny in that house; bless my granny
when she died just short of one-hundred a couple of years ago. I have
seen in that yard a young couple with two kids, a girl short of 6 years old and
a boy not 4 yet.
From what I can see, they mind
their own business and keep their yard clean and their old car washed.
But, there is something about that young boy. The size of his feet and
hands tell me he will be big bruiser when he is matured. It gives me a
bit of problem when I think about it. Oy vay!
I am old and getting older each
day. A few years from now, the boy will be a strong and a tall, and I will be
even older shorter than now. When I was drafted to serve in the Army, I
learned to fight and use the bayonet, hand guns and you tell me. I did my
damage during the Vietnam War. But, that was many years ago. Few years
from now, how could I defend myself if the boy would then decide to walk over
and mull me and some? I am just thinking. I am afraid of that boy,
he may be four years old now, but he is growing boy.
I have been talking with people
in my street and try to find the business of the boy’s family. I was
thinking if the family would face more hardship, then maybe they would sell or
lose their house and move out of my neighborhood. And that would be the
end of my fear.
Anytime I go by the house, my
mutt threatens to kill the kid, agitated and threatening. My meshuge mutt
is too small; otherwise, he could just do some serious damage to the boy. I am
willing to sacrifice the mutt, if he just could do the job. I have to face the reality and
make a decision.
I say, it would be justified.
Just ask that is the standard of treating others, partially fear
and mucked up with conjecture. The boy would grow and
could do some damage to me. It is all for my safety. I am
justified.
But, could forcing the family
out would create other more serious new problems? The new owners could
have more than one growing boy. Then what?
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Persian Gulf: The Garden of Eden and the Noah’s Flood
July 3, 2013
The last
glacial period occurred from approximately 110,000 to 10,000 years
ago. During this period the maximum extent of glaciation was approximately 22,000 years ago (Last Glacial Maximum).
Local ice fields and small ice sheets capped the mountains in the Caucasus, Turkey and Iran.
During the last glacial period, the sea level dropped by at least 120 meters
below today’s ocean level.
The Persian Gulf has
an average depth of 50 meters and a maximum depth of 90 meters. The Persian
Gulf stretches 989 kilometers from the present boundaries for Iran and Iraq to
the Gulf of Oman. At the narrowest width, the Strait of Hormuz is about
56 kilometers wide. Thus, at the maximum glaciers period, the entire
Persian Gulf was above the Indian Ocean sea level. It was a dry shallow
valley with several small lakes at the lowest valley floors. These lakes
received the waters of the Arvand Rud, the river formed by the Kārun, the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers.
The following two pictures (a, b) show
the hydro-physiography of Persian Gulf region between 18,000 and 12,000 years
ago. About 12,000 years ago, the body of water within the Persian Gulf valley
and the Gulf of Oman had abridged the land barrier and had made contact. The
extent of the lake closest to the Strait of Hormuz had increased into the
shallow adjacent land (Figure b).
The following pictures are from
Kurt Lambeck “Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National
University. Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, 1995.”
The glacial retreat about 11,000 years ago had a profound effect on
landscapes in many areas that were covered by ice at the Last Glacial Maximum.
The increase flow of water from Karun by melting of ice on Zagros Mountain,
increased flow of Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the size of the local shallow
lakes increased within the Persian Gulf valley. As the glaciers melted, the
ocean level slowly increased. The combined sea level change and the expansion
of the lakes broke the soil dam at Hormuz causing an intrusion of the ocean
water into the Persian Gulf valley. The Persian Gulf level steadily rose along
with the ocean level (Figures b, c and d) reaching to today’s level by about
6000 years ago (Figure d).
Who were the people of Elam?
The Persian Gulf
valley had a thriving population. The valley may have supported early
humans for over 100,000 years. These people could have been the ancestors of
the Elamite (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/elamite.htm).
The general knowledge
about Elam can be summarized by “Elam civilization centered in the far west and
southwest of modern-day Iran. The location of this civilization was the
lowlands of what are now Khuzestan, Elam Province, and a small part of southern
modern Iraq.” This civilization is recognized as the oldest in Iran and
was largely contemporary with its neighbor, the Sumerian civilization, and the oldest in the world, which began
around 3400 BC. Elamite states were among the leading political forces of
the ancient near east.
The general knowledge about Elam can be
summarized by:
“Elam civilization
centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran. The location of this
civilization was the lowlands of what are now Khuzestan, Elam Province, and a
small part of southern modern Iraq.” This civilization is recognized as
the oldest in Iran and was largely contemporary with its neighbor, the Sumerian civilization, and the oldest in the world, which began
around 3400 BC. Elamite states were among the leading political forces of
the ancient near east.
Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist and
researcher with the University of Birmingham in Current Anthropology (2010)
wrote:
“Perhaps it is no coincidence
that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the
shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000
years ago,” Rose said. “These new colonists may have come from the heart of the
Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape
beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean.”
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Why Wars? Who Started the War?
June 22, 2013
Wars are waged for honor,
fear, and resources. Analyses of wars suggest that many are waged by acts of
aggression for the territory and natural resource of another nation. Geoffrey
Blainely in “The Causes of War” (1973) indicates that “The vanity of nationalism,
the will to spread ideology, the protection of kinsmen in an adjacent land,
the desire for more territory or commerce, the avenging of a defeat or
insult, the craving for greater national strength or independence, the wish
to impress or cement alliances — all these represent power in different
wrappings. The conflicting aims of rival nations are always conflicts of
power”. Sometimes, war is empowered by religion. But, the hidden motive is to
capture the resources of the other nation, force it’s will, and increase its
sphere of influence. Those who seek power will never end their cycle of
destruction by waging war. Imperialism of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India,
Persia, Greece, Rome, England, Spain, Russia and the United States among
others, all have one thing in common, exploitation and expansion of power.
Many optimists hope, and realists suggest, to limit wars opt for police
actions under the auspices of the United Nations. In today’s inter-related
international environment, many of the world boundaries are collapsing by
free trade, the exchange of knowledge, and travel. Electronic communication
has increased our awareness of other cultures.
We have one home, the earth.
She has limited resources and a very fragile environment. The future of our
civilization is at risk of global annihilation by nuclear, biological and
chemical arsenals of nations. For the civilization to survive, we have to
rely on the International Court and the United Nations to resolve the
conflicts. Optimists and realists both predict someday the earth will
be free of these awful powerful causes of mass death. Otherwise, our
civilization will not survive.
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Obama and Romney: Who
should we elect?
October 4, 2012
I hope you did not think this debate was one more good old
college debate between two freshmen. We should look at the core of the characters
of the two candidates. Mr. Romney represents the Republican Platform and
the platform is greatly controlled by the Tea party requirements. What do we
know about the Republican Agenda?
I have
watched many presentations by Mr. Romney. I am confused with his many answers
to the same question; I have difficulty to know him as a person. I asked myself
during the debate if he was just repeating what his handlers have instructed
him to say.
The
choice between Mr. Romney’s Republican Agenda and President Obama’s Democratic
Party Agenda could affect our nation’s future and our way of life.
Did the debate change my
vote? I have known about President Obama, I respect him, trust him and have a
good feeling about the core of his character. Who is really Mr. Romney?
How could I accept the Republican Party’s Agenda?
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