Monday, January 6, 2014

Al Qaeda takes over Fallujah- Time

Al Qaeda takes over Fallujah Time

I can't seem to quote anymore of this article. So, click on above word button if you want to read it.

What I have heard in reporting at CNN on TV goes something like this. The present government of Iraq is Shia based. However, Fallujah and western Iraq (Anbar) is mostly Sunni. Since the Sunnis are not being represented by the present Iraqi Government some are temporarily aligning with Al Qaeda to get more power for the Sunnis. But this is only temporary because Al Qaeda is so brutal and keeps beheading and whipping everyone there. So, now some of the Sunni Tribes are creating militias to kill and drive out Al Qaeda. But, the Shia government is presently very weak and ineffective in dealing with Al Qaeda, so unless they start representing the Sunni people too the Shia government might collapse within the next few years as a direct result.

This is what people have been worried about regarding the Syrian War spreading to other countries like Iraq and Lebanon and eventually others. Even the unrest in Turkey might be partly caused by Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to some degree to deflect attention in other directions from what is happening in Syria. Because these conflicts are now Proxy wars also between the western world and Russia (even though the western world and Russia pretend this isn't the case) there is a level of surrealism to this whole thing that I haven't seen since before the old Soviet Union collapsed around 1990.

There is another factor here that I don't think has been looked into enough before: The U.S. now is a major exporter of oil so in some ways it is in competition, business wise now with Saudi Arabia in regard to exporting oil. This majorly changes geopolitics in a way I haven't seen before in my lifetime. I think news articles should address this because this economic change may create a 3rd world War scenario over the next 10 to 15 years between Sunnis and Shias. This is one reason that the U.S. is trying to make peace with Iran because  U.S. military strategists see this coming. And so do the Russians (who might like to see all Sunnis extinct) because of what happened and is still happening in Chechnya. So, for the whole world this situation is spinning out of control. The present proxy war creating this Sunni versus Shia Mideast engulfing war isn't really to anyone's advantage in the long run. Russia might see this as an increase in oil prices for their wealth and prosperity because the Russian Government now runs financially on Russian Oil. But, somehow this is very cynical as hundreds of thousands of people in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon die from this Russian stance.

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